This vertical cliff consists of soft mud deposited on the Japan Trench bottom and was uplifted ~60 m by the 2011 megaquake. This was the first time that the fault scarp of a trench-type earthquake was ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The evidence was hidden beneath a typical Northwest tangle of second-growth forest and brush -- evidence of the massive quake that struck Seattle about 1,100 years ago. Until a few ...

High up in Canada’s Yukon Territory, a seismic gun is being cocked and aimed at the little community of Dawson City—population 1,600. If a new study in the journal Geophysical Research Letters is ...

Beneath the suburban neighborhoods and forests immediately south of this cultural mecca, an active fault continues to tremble, some 645 years after it caused the worst earthquake in central European ...

Based on my research, which include image composites of two flyby views of Mercury from the MESSENGER spacecraft, I conclude that Mercury has not cooled and shrunken as much as previously thought.