Multiple earthquakes are rattling Santorini, a volcanic island in Greece, prompting authorities to dispatch rescuers with tents, a sniffer dog and drones, and to shut schools ...

Jan. 26, 2025, marks 325 years since the last great earthquake on the Cascadia subduction zone. It’s a time to reflect on what we’ve learned about this largest fault system in the lower 48 states ...

The magnitude 7.9 Bonin Islands earthquake sequence in May 2015, which ruptured deep within the earth near the base of the upper mantle, did not include an aftershock that extended to record ...

Their body is scaleless and the skin has a slimy, silvery protective coating known as guanine. The Japanese myth was rekindled in 2011 after the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. On March 11, a ...

It’s notorious for its megathrust earthquakes, powerful seismic events that occur where one tectonic plate is forced beneath another, releasing colossal quantities of energy. If the Nankai ...

The earthquake research committee said it has increased its estimate of the probability to 75-82% from 74-81% previously. It concerns what is known as a subduction megathrust quake along the ...

The Earthquake Research Committee said it has increased its estimate of the probability to between 75 and 82 percent from between 74 and 81 percent previously. It concerns what is known as a ...

This area has a history of subduction megathrust earthquakes, with intervals of 100 to 200 years. The last major earthquake here was recorded in 1946. Government studies warn that a megaquake in ...

Faults can slip suddenly as earthquakes, but also slowly and still energetically as slow-slip events. Slow-slip events are observed in subduction zones that host powerful megathrust earthquakes ...

It concluded the scale of the earthquake was below a moment magnitude scale of 7.0, meaning it did not meet the criteria to issue an advisory with the phrase Megathrust Earthquake Attention. A ...

A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck southwestern Japan late on Monday ... That was a particular kind of tremor known as a subduction megathrust quake, which has occurred in pairs in the past and can ...