Each blow sends a clang echoing down the street and vibrations deep into the ground. In a lab half a mile away, scientists watch their screens to see whether those vibrations register on a seismometer ...

A 14-year-old student from Williamsburg, Virginia, has become one of 30 finalists in a national science competition after ...

Most people imagine earthquakes as violent, surface-shaking events — the ground cracks, buildings sway, and the damage is immediate and visible. But some of the most powerful and scientifically ...

Scientists discovered that deep earthquake faults can heal far faster than expected, sometimes within hours. Slow slip events in Cascadia reveal repeated fault movements that only make sense if the ...

Sometimes to truly study something up close, you have to take a step back. That's what Andrea Donnellan does. An expert in Earth sciences and seismology, she gets much of her data from a bird's-eye ...