A long-feared monster earthquake off the coast of California, Oregon and Washington could cause some areas to sink by more ...

For communities living in the shadow of a volcano, early warning systems are a lifeline—but mistrust in these warnings can ...

Lake sediment cores in Guatemala reveal directional ground shaking from the 1976 earthquake, offering rare insight into ...

In 1638, an earthquake in what is now New Hampshire and Plymouth, Massachusetts, left colonists stumbling from the strong ...

Historically, earthquakes of this scale have occurred ... also sit on dangerous fault lines. For example, Delhi, lies in Seismic Zone IV, right above the Delhi-Haridwar Ridge and recently a ...

DW's research shows that many videos circulating online following the earthquake in Turkey do not depict the recent event. Here are three examples. Claim: This viral TikTok video shows a torn-up ...

The recent earthquake in Myanmar and Thailand has drawn fresh attention to global preparednessImage: STR/AFP Africa can learn from global examples including Myanmar's recent quake. That includes ...

The San Andreas fault in the western U.S. is another such example. Unlike thrust faults, where earthquakes originate at either shallow or deeper sources, earthquakes on strike-slip faults are ...

Countries with limited resources provide tangible examples of what a lack of earthquake data can do. Imagine if an early warning capability existed in Myanmar or Thailand, or in Haiti, where the ...

But the earthquakes she found taking place near the central region ... The Andes, a long mountain range in South America, is ...

reducing the risk of a big earthquake. For example, in California’s San Andreas Fault, small quakes have reduced the risk of a 6.0+ magnitude earthquake by 15-20% (Journal of Geophysical Research, ...

The bigger the quake, the longer it will last. For example, the 9.1-magnitude earthquake that struck Japan in 2011 went on for nearly six minutes. If you’re indoors, resist the urge to run outside.