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M4.9 Earthquake Strikes off Guam
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake was recorded by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) at 11:57 UTC on Oct. 16, 2026. The agency placed the epicenter in open water, 119 kilometers southwest of Merizo Village,…
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M6.9 Earthquake Strikes Near Ozernovskiy, Kamchatka, Russia
A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck 76 kilometers northeast of Ozernovskiy, on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, at 3:35 a.m. UTC on Oct. 16, 2026, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). USGS put…
ArticleMyanmar's Fault Twists With Depth, and Older Satellite Data Already Said So
Seismologists have one answer they cannot give, and they give it constantly: nobody knows when a fault will break. So a team working across Munich, San Diego, Zurich and Yangon asked a narrower…
NewsFirst Death Confirmed From Panama's M7.5 Earthquake
A 68-year-old woman died Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026, in a hospital in Panama City from injuries sustained in the earthquake that struck Panama at 12:56 p.m. local time (17:56 UTC) on Friday, Oct. 9,…
ArticleEighteen Earthquakes That Have Not Happened, on a Fault Still Being Mapped
There is a standard reference model of the world's subduction zones, and it includes every Philippine trench but one. The Negros-Sulu Trench is the gap. Seismic surveys have imaged pieces of the slab…
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M4.8 Earthquake Strikes North Atlantic Ocean
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck the North Atlantic Ocean on Oct. 14, 2026, at 3:02 a.m. UTC, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The agency put the epicenter on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge,…
NewsM5.1 Earthquake Strikes off Coquimbo, Chile
Two earthquakes struck off Coquimbo, Chile, six minutes apart late Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026, local time, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said. The larger, magnitude 5.1, struck at 9:30 p.m. Chile…
ArticleThe USGS Says How the Ground Moved Under Panama, Not Which Fault Moved It
The southern coast of Panama's Azuero Peninsula has the shape of a place where one slab of ocean floor dives beneath another. The faults that cut across the peninsula itself mostly do something else.…
ArticleA Sideways Earthquake, an Unexplained Wave, and a New Suspect Under the Seafloor
In July 2020, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake broke the plate boundary beneath the Shumagin Islands, off the Alaska Peninsula, and shoved the seafloor upward. That is how a tsunami is usually made. The…
ArticleSmall Tremors Came Before Nearly Every Injection-Triggered Quake in a Western Canada Study
Earthquake prediction has a long record of not working. Decades of hunting for a reliable precursor, a swarm of small shocks, a change in groundwater, a shift in the ground's electrical properties,…
ArticleOne Seismometer Can't Speak for the Ground Three Kilometers Away
A seismometer reports one number for one patch of ground. The house a kilometer down the road has no seismometer of its own, so whatever shook it has to be inferred from the instrument that does…
ArticleThe Faults Under Israel's Offshore Gas Corridor Have Moved Ten Times Faster Since the Ice Age Ended
Somewhere off northern Israel, under a few hundred meters of water, the seabed has a step in it roughly 30 meters high. By rights, it should be gone. Sediment carried up from the Nile settles along…