Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The shaking produced by an earthquake can crack the ground, bring down buildings and cause massive rockfalls. All this destructive ...

The ground-shaking that an earthquake generates is only a fraction of the total energy that a quake releases. A quake can also generate a flash of heat, along with a domino-like fracturing of ...

When Julian Lozos visited the site of the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes two days after the event, he noticed something strange. Pebble- to boulder-sized rocks had clearly been moved by the ...

Sediment cores drawn from four lakes in Guatemala record the distinct direction that ground shaking traveled during a 1976 magnitude 7.5 earthquake that devastated the country, according to ...

Temple linebacker Katin Surprenant will never forget his first Division I football game a year ago in Norman, Oklahoma. He's hoping to create an even more indelible memory on Saturday when the Owls ...

ST. LOUIS – Simulations and research from the U.S. Geological Survey suggest that St. Louis faces a small, but real risk of a moderate to strong earthquake in the future, roughly a 2% chance over the ...