Researchers analyzed the data taken from seismographs of that region collected in 2011 and 2012 with a special focus being ... a surge in activity of deep long-period earthquakes at the beginning ...

Local authorities swiftly mobilised to assess the situation, with initial reports suggesting that the earthquake's deep focus may have mitigated its surface impact. Residents of Leh described ...

Warren, L. M., E. C. Baluyut, T. Osburg, K. Lisac, and S. Kokkinen, Fault-plane orientations of intermediate-depth and deep-focus earthquakes in the Japan-Kuril ...

Seismologists emphasise that while deep-focus earthquakes like this one are less likely to cause surface damage, they can still be felt in coastal regions.

A government panel has determined that a major earthquake that rocked northeastern Japan on Feb. 13 affected wide areas because of its deep focus, which was much deeper than the 2011 Great East ...

said the Nov. 14 earthquake is classified as a “deep-focus earthquake” because its hypocenter was deep underground. It struck inside the Pacific Plate, which runs underneath near Japan.