There have been rockets launching from Vandenberg for decades, so why are the Falcon 9 launches of such concern? "Because of ...

It wasn’t just the Metallica concert at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg causing seismic waves this week, a 3.0 magnitude earthquake was recorded near Dillwyn on Tuesday. The earthquake’s center ...

Minor quakes can disrupt natural tectonic patterns deep underground and change stress landscape, new study finds ...

Earthquake sensors across metro Atlanta picked up the tremors. A seismogram from Lilburn shows the seismic waves in a clear spike around the time of the quake. East Coast earthquakes are often ...

Large movements of magma and rock inside a volcano cause seismic ... tectonic earthquakes changed drastically before and after the 2014 eruption. Integrating data from shear-wave splitting and ...

It also was felt in parts of Georgia, Kentucky and North Carolina. Seismic waves from earthquakes spread more efficiently in the Eastern U.S. compared to the West because of the region’s geology ...

Researchers have now 'heard' the echo of cyclones whirling ocean waters from all the way on the other side of our planet.

Coastal communities from northern California to British Columbia live atop the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which spans about ...

California has experienced three earthquakes in the last 24 hours in an area being closely monitored for a major quake. The US Geological Survey (USGS) detected the seismic activity along the San ...