Volcanoes inspire awe with spectacular eruptions and incandescent rivers of lava, but often their deadliest hazard is what quietly falls from the sky.

Flipping through a photo album, Wayne Hendrickson recalls the day when he witnessed the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in North America ...

At the Seismological Society of America's Annual Meeting, researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are faults?

The quake’s epicenter was around two miles south of the community of Julian, about 60 miles east of San Diego.

Since the late 1970s, the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute has provided this column free in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell [email protected] is ...

Scientists are monitoring a huge volcano in Alaska that is 'moving closer to ... This quake hit 65 miles below the surface - an earthquake depth that would typically be associated with tectonic ...

A cataclysmic event could also be looming on the horizon for India. Experts have warned about the imminent threat of the Great Himalayan Earthquake - a disaster of such immense scale that it could ...

India sits on one of the world's most earthquake-prone regions. The Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates crash together, creating enormous pressure under the Himalayas. A "Great Himalayan Earthquake" ...

SAI AUNG MAIN/AFP via Getty Ninety-one hours after the earthquake struck central Myanmar, a 63-year-old woman has been pulled from the rubble from a collapsed building in the country's capital ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On April 1, 1946, a magnitude 8.6 earthquake centered near Alaska’s Aleutian Islands triggered a tsunami that pounded the ...