Human activity can cause “healed” faults to release their stored strength, triggering unexpected quakes in tectonically stable regions.

Magma seeping into a reservoir under the island of Santorini set off thousands of quakes, some of which almost reached a 5.0 ...

A mysterious swarm of earthquakes that occurred near the Greek island of Santorini in early 2025 was caused by rebounding ...

Scientists are investigating the cause of recent regional earthquake activity that affected Kentucky over the weekend. A small 2.8 magnitude earthquake was recorded in Nicholasville in the early ...

Slow earthquakes have been discovered to exhibit anomalously slow, long-lasting and small slips, adjacent to regular ...

A magnitude-5.6 earthquake rattled parts of south-east Queensland near the Sunshine Coast on Saturday. People reported feeling tremors as far north as Rockhampton and as far south as Glen Innes in New ...

In 1979, the University of Minnesota’s Harold Mooney estimated that Minnesota’s average recurrence rate for a magnitude 4 ...

Some reports of shaking came in from as far away as 40 miles from the epicenter, according to the federal agency that tracks ...

Yes, Hurricane Melissa affected seismic activity, but it did not cause a crack in the seafloor that will lead to a major ...