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Scientists have placed two seismometers 8000 feet below the ice cap at the South Pole to measure earthquakes and support tsunami alerts.

The back-to-back earthquakes that rattled the Bay Area this week were a potent reminder of the infamous faults beneath our feet. But with current technology, people might still only get seconds of ...

Android earthquake detection has reshaped how people stay safe in seismic events by turning billions of smartphones into a global detection network. These everyday devices act as miniature sensors, ...

Forecasting volcanic eruptions in time to alert authorities and populations remains a major global challenge. In a study published in Nature Communications, researchers and engineers from the Institut ...

Thunder from an earthquake and the roar of a jet feel worlds apart. Yet deep under your feet, both can leave nearly the same kind of trace. New research from the University of Alaska Fairbanks shows ...

Seismologists Discover Hidden Faults Beneath One of the U.S.'s Biggest Earthquake Hotspots ...

Space debris—the thousands of pieces of human-made objects abandoned in Earth's orbit—poses a risk to humans when it falls to the ground. To locate possible crash sites, a Johns Hopkins University ...

In the photo above, a seismometer is buried about five feet underground. The seismometer is one of the units deployed by the Iowa Geological Survey so it could measure seismicity — or the frequency of ...

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.