Climate journalist Emma Pattee has been worried about the so-called big one—an off-the-charts earthquake—hitting her town in Portland, Ore., for some time now. She’s not alone: scientists estimate at ...

Scientists at Stanford have unveiled the first-ever global map of rare earthquakes that rumble deep within Earth’s mantle rather than its crust. Long debated and notoriously difficult to confirm, ...

At the Bedretto Underground Laboratory deep in the Swiss Alps, scientists are inducing tiny earthquakes along a natural fault zone in the hopes of understanding what can trigger—and prevent—a deadly ...

Regina Barber and Katia Riddle of NPR's Short Wave podcast talk about prehistoric cooking, earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest and how teens are sleeping less than before.

The 2025 mega-quake in Myanmar was a catastrophe for the communities it struck, but for scientists it was also a once-in-a-generation natural experiment that unfolded almost perfectly on camera, in ...

The Mendocino Triple Junction off the coast of Northern California is the point where three tectonic plates meet. A new study reveals at least five moving pieces deep below the Earth's surface make up ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stanford researchers mapped rare mantle earthquakes worldwide, revealing clusters near the Himalayas and the Bering Strait.

Hoboken, N.J., December 8, 2025 — On Saturday December 6, 2025 Alaska was rocked by a 7.0 magnitude quake. Though not always so forceful, earthquakes happen every day. On average, about 55 of them ...

Recently, the people of the city of Kolkata witnessed the earthquake for a short time; individuals ran out of high-rise offices to the streets in panic.