Earthquakes are generally understood to rupture outward from their starting point beneath the ground, sending seismic waves along a fault line in one or two directions. New research from the ...

New research from MIT reveals that earthquakes can reverse direction, striking the same area twice, a phenomenon now termed ...

Scientists at Stanford have unveiled the first-ever global map of rare earthquakes that rumble deep within Earth’s mantle rather than its crust. Long debated and notoriously difficult to confirm, ...

Earthquakes might actually be detectable using a network of smartphones now. You heard that right: There's this thing called "Android Earthquake Alerts" that's basically turning our phones into a ...

Minor earthquakes happen in and around New York more often than many people realize. This map shows where they've struck over the past decades - and how close some may have been to you.