but the number of global events thus far this year has not been unusually large or small," added Stewart, who is an expert in earthquake engineering. The Noto Peninsula earthquake in Japan caused ...

According to a recent studypublished in JGR Solid Earth, nearly half of California’s fault lines—including the infamous San ...

USGS The event placed several areas along the Mexican coastline under threat of tsunami — with those warnings and advisories lifted more than two hours later, according to USGS. The earthquake ...

Additionally, as the global population grows ... leading to greater public recognition of seismic events. The National Earthquake Information Center now tracks around 20,000 earthquakes annually ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan was struck by an earthquake about 71 kilometers (44.1 miles) south of Hualien City, monitoring agencies said. The quake hit seconds after cell phone alarms went off at ...

Despite improved seismic safety measures, the risk of another catastrophic event looms ... is one of the largest cities in the world and one of the most earthquake-prone. It is located within ...

compiled the most comprehensive global database of coseismic landslides to date, 398,698 mapped events across 38 major earthquakes since the 1970s. Each landslide polygon was rigorously validated ...