For decades, researchers thought that an October 1843 earthquake on the small Greek island of Chalke caused a powerful tsunami and led to the deaths of as many as 600 people. But a new analysis of ...

No one ever thought the birth of the Rocky Mountains was a simple process, but we now know it was far more complex than even ...

Pushover analysis is a nonlinear static procedure that provides a pragmatic approach to evaluating a structure's seismic performance without resorting to computationally expensive dynamic time‐history ...

A satellite captured a Tsunami from space for the first time, revealing why the 2025 Kamchatka earthquake was less destructive than 1952.

The great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake of December 26, 2004, was an event of stunning proportions, both in its human dimensions–nearly 300,000 lives lost–and as a geological phenomenon. The sudden ...

Scientists discover ultra-weak faults near the 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Haiti that continued to slip for weeks.

Kyoto, Japan -- During the midday Friday prayer hours on 28 March 2025, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck central Myanmar along the Sagaing Fault. With an epicenter close to Mandalay, the country's ...

Kevin Milner has been honored with the Seismological Society of America’s 2026 Charles F. Richter Early Career Award for his ...