We often think of the Earth as solid, and quiet. But scientists are starting to realize it might be anything but silent. Deep ...

On March 28, Myanmar was rocked by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that claimed over 5,000 lives and caused damage even in ...

A powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck Alaska on Wednesday, unleashing seismic shockwaves that raced through the Earth's ...

Starting in the US in 2020 and expanding internationally since, the system is called Android Earthquake Alert (AEA), and it's ...

A 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Alaska on July 16, 2025. While significant, the 1964 Prince William Sound ...

Two massive blobs beneath Africa and the Pacific—each taller than 90 Everests—may be remains of a lost planet. Hidden in ...

Earth has its own subtle way of warning its inhabitants of impending disasters. But are we paying attention? While animals ...

Dr Susanne Ouellet has been researching how strain and seismic sensing fibre optics can help monitor the performance of tailings dams ...

They then measured the velocity of lab-produced seismic waves sent through this material. These measurements show that while randomly-oriented crystal samples do not reproduce the shear wave velocity ...

Over a thousand miles from the surface, in Earth’s D” layer—right on the edge of the liquid metal outer core—there is a weird acceleration of seismic waves. Experiments recreating the ...

Earthquake waves suddenly behave differently there: their speed jumps as if they were traveling through a different material.