Professor Dean Whitman, of the Department of Earth and Environment, studies earthquakes. He answers questions about the geophysics of the destructive event.

Whidbey Island on the night of July 1. And while a magnitude 3.8 isn't necessarily a strong earthquake, and this only ...

On Wednesday evening, Venezuela was hit with its largest tremors in more than a century — toppling buildings and claiming more than 100 lives. The event, according to the US Geological Survey, was a ...

Earthquakes are pretty common in Afghanistan due to its placement on an active tectonic collision zone. However, what levaes ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV/Gray Florida Capital Bureau) - Florida is tied for first place in a positive metric: having the least number of earthquakes anywhere in America, but many Floridians experienced ...

Following the devastating urban fire that broke out in Wajima City after Japan's 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake, investigators struggled to identify a clear ignition source, despite widespread ...

An 8.8 earthquake in Russia's Far East early Wednesday that forced evacuations for nearly 2 million people in Japan and triggered tsunami waves there, in Hawaii and across the Pacific. The tsunami ...

As the provisional death toll from the twin earthquakes that struck the country's Northwest on Wednesday reaches 920, ...

COLUMBIA — You might have missed it, but the Midlands was hit by yet another earthquake this week. Over the past several years, the Midlands has experienced a higher-than-normal (at least from a human ...