Geologist Robert Yeats, author of 'Earthquake Time Bombs', has highlighted the risks associated with the presence of several ...

Off the coast of Hawke’s Bay, a giant slumbers – but could wake at any time. The Hikurangi Subduction Zone is where the Pacific plate drops westward under the Australian plate. It sits just off the ...

GREENWATER, Wash. — A magnitude 3.8 earthquake struck western Washington Sunday morning, according to the U.S. Geological ...

Two earthquakes hit the area between Fiji and New Zealand on April 14 morning. The first quake measured 6.5, and the second ...

The Farallon plate and the North American plate once formed a subduction zone along the continent's west coast ... The ...

The U.S. Geologic Survey (USGS) insists that earthquake forecasting is not possible. Thus, the agency only calculates the probability that a significant earthquake will occur, depicted in a hazard map ...

While this causes "strike slip" quakes that are normally less powerful than those seen in "subduction zones" like Sumatra ... Graphic: A map showing location of Sagaing fault passing through ...

Earthquakes. A short video for 11-14 year old pupils, exploring tectonic activity and earthquakes and featuring case studies ...

The Pacific Coast is tiptoeing around not one but two of the largest seismic triggers of the region’s modern history.