Earthquakes

Japan's mapping agency published its first radar picture of the Kumamoto rupture on 29 July, about a day after the ground stopped moving. It is not a photograph. It is the difference between two…

At 4:51 a.m. on Saturday, some North Islanders got a few seconds of notice that most earthquakes never give. Their phones buzzed loudly, overriding silent mode, a heartbeat before the ground began to…

When a kilometer-thick ice sheet retreated from Vancouver Island at the end of the last glaciation, it left behind a scoured, sculpted landscape. That is exactly what makes the island a hard place to…

For years, the shorthand explanation for the earthquakes shaking north-central Texas was simple. Drillers inject enormous volumes of salty wastewater deep underground; the water raises pressure on…

A little before nine in the morning, the seafloor off southern Mexico lurched. Within minutes the U.S. Geological Survey had a magnitude, a location, and an automated damage forecast on the wire; a…