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Earthquakes

Latest in Earthquakes

The Midnight sun over the icebergs in the Weddell Sea from the Antarctic Peninsula in Antarctica.
Climate Change

Antarctica has a ‘gravity hole’

By Andrew Paul

CCTV video screenshot of home's driveway during earthquake in Myanmar
Environment

In world first, CCTV captures supershear velocity earthquake

By Andrew Paul

Active lava flows spilling out of the Erta Ale volcano in Afar, Ethiopia. Credit: Dr Derek Keir, University of Southampton/ University of Florence
Environment

A new ocean is forming in East Africa

By Andrew Paul

Lava rising out of erupting volcano
Environment

Underground ‘sub-continents’ may rewrite geology textbooks

By Andrew Paul

An orange tree stays next to a damaged buildings in Antakya, Hatay province, on February 5, 2024, after one year the February 2023 earthquake. The disaster, which killed more than 53,500 people in Turkey and nearly 6,000 in Syria, was the region's deadliest in many centuries. (Photo by Ozan KOSE / AFP) (Photo by OZAN KOSE/AFP via Getty Images)
Science

New data on ‘the Big One’ offers a clearer view of inevitable earthquake catastrophe

By Lauren Leffer

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