See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A recent study suggests that a simultaneous rupture of two major fault ...

A new theory suggests that heavy snowfall could be a factor in triggering swarms of earthquakes — evidence that what’s happening on and above the Earth’s surface may play a role in events underground.

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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Oregonians have long known that a major earthquake could devastate the region in the next 50 years, but a new study suggests the impact could have implications for the entire ...

At the Seismological Society of America's Annual Meeting, researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are faults? Using data compiled from single earthquakes across the world, Christie ...

It’s like a plot from a Hollywood movie. A massive earthquake on one West Coast fault triggers other earthquakes far away, causing vast destruction over hundreds of miles. A new study out Tuesday ...

In recent weeks, North Texans felt the aftershock of several earthquakes originating near Hermleigh in Scurry County, about 250 miles west of downtown Dallas. The cause of these quakes has yet to be ...

On May 12, 2008, the magnitude 7.9 Wenchuan Earthquake shook central China, its destructive tremors spreading from the flank of the Longmen Shan, or Dragon's Gate Mountains, along the eastern margin ...