The 12s became famous by causing the Beast Quake in Pete Carroll's playoff debut. Only seismologists can guess what they ...

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Earthquakes are measured on the Richter scale, which quantifies their magnitude based on seismic wave amplitude. A magnitude of 6.5 is considered strong, with the potential to cause significant damage ...

A small town in California was hit by earthquakes once every 22 years for over a century, setting the stage for a major ...

When a mountainside collapsed into a remote Greenland fjord in 2023, it did far more than send a wall of water racing toward ...

The Moon’s most famous “sound” was never heard by human ears. It was traced instead in jagged lines on Apollo-era ...

Hurricane Melissa will go down as one of the worst hurricanes ever in the Atlantic Ocean, with the hurricane reaching a strength that only a handful of storms have achieved in recorded history.

BUTTE, Mont. — Envision this scenario: You are going about your day. All is calm and quiet until suddenly, the ground beneath your feet begins to shake, and items within your home or workspace begin ...

Mars may have a hardened heart. Marsquake reverberations detected by NASA’s InSight lander revealed that the Red Planet probably possesses a solid inner core, researchers report in the Sept. 4 Nature.

Seismic waves from one of the most powerful earthquakes on record along the east coast of Russia rippled all the way down to Florida. A tsunami thousands of miles away was triggered by the massive ...

A new paper reveals that ground acceleration from moonquakes, rather than meteor impacts, was responsible for shifting lunar landscapes at the moon's Taurus-Littrow valley, where Apollo 17 astronauts ...

Over a thousand miles from the surface, in Earth’s D” layer—right on the edge of the liquid metal outer core—there is a weird acceleration of seismic waves. Experiments recreating the phenomenon in a ...