A period of slow, creeping movement without any shaking may be a necessary prelude to earthquakes, a new study suggests. The research, which was on the fundamentals of how materials rupture ...

Instead, experts from the lab explained that the activity seen “so far probably bears the characteristics of a seismic swarm, as no earthquake with a magnitude clearly larger than all the others ...

Only a small proportion of megaquakes have foreshocks – smaller earthquakes just before they happen – and these are generally not recognized as such until after the big quake happens, Nissen explained ...

who explained Northwest Georgia is the state's most active seismic region. It is located within the Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone, which experiences frequent, small earthquakes. The zone is ...

And we’re really pleased by that because when in a larger earthquake comes, we have maybe greater confidence that it’s going to work as it’s designed,” Tobin said. He explained that at 4.5 ...