In her Earthquake Lites column in Seismological Research Letters, Hough explains why Summerville's combination of shallow faults, railroad tracks and ghost stories might offer an unusual guide for ...

Cemil Yavas knows firsthand the devastation that earthquakes can bring to communities, which led him to research how to predict the phenomenon for many years. “My interest in earthquake prediction ...

Some of the proposed mechanisms include ignition of released underground gases like methane or radon, or dialectric discharge from fault movements, as Japanese seismologist Yuji Enomoto detailed in a ...

Georgia uses a law called modified comparative negligence. This law lets people recover money for injuries or damages even if they’re partly responsible for the accident. However, there’s a catch: you ...

A 6.4-magnitude earthquake has struck southern Taiwan, leaving 27 people with minor injuries and some reported damage.

Japan intensified its scientific efforts to survey active faults and publicly disseminate seismic risk information in the aftermath of the Great Hanshin Earthquake that leveled parts of Kobe and ...

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6 struck southern Taiwan early Tuesday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake hit at 12:17 a.m. (1600 GMT Monday), ...

TACLOBAN CITY – The recent frequent earthquakes in different parts of the country are normal with the presence of onshore and offshore active faults, an official of the Philippine Institute of ...

DEEPSTEP - A 3.2 magnitude earthquake shook a small middle Georgia town on Sunday night, prompting dozens of calls from rattled residents. Washington County Emergency Management Director Russell Riner ...