Earthquakes can be damaging enough, but sometimes what follows can be worse. Dan Smith takes us through one of Earth's most ...

A preliminary magnitude-?? earthquake was reported… Whether you feel shaking from an earthquake largely depends on three major factors — magnitude, distance and local soil conditions. Magnitude refers ...

Fukushima Daiichi survived the most powerful earthquake in Japan’s history. The reactors shut down exactly as designed, and ...

Geologists from Heriot-Watt are part of an international research team that has confirmed why the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake off ...

More seismic energy was released in 2025 than at any time in the last 14 years, but the global death toll was well below the ...

When Ichiro Kawachi established a cohort study in Iwanuma, Japan, in 2010, he thought he would be researching the predictors ...

Sooner or later, in any foolproof system, the fools are going to exceed the proofs. I awoke on the Friday morning of March 11, 2011, to a peaceful, sunny, ...

An international team's seafloor study revealed one reason why the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami were so devastating. The ...

A 4.2 magnitude earthquake has struck near Cloverdale in California, shaking nearby Santa Rosa, too, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said. The news cycle is loud. Algorithms push us to extremes. In ...

On Wednesday, Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority announced that it is halting the relicensing process for two reactors at ...

The 2025 tsunami is shattering old models, thanks to observations from space. On July 29, 2025, the world’s sixth biggest recorded earthquake struck Russia, triggering a tsunami whose waves reached as ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency reported that the tremor, initially measured at magnitude 6.2, originated inland in the western Shimane prefecture at a depth of roughly 10km. Strong shaking was felt ...