Scientists do not have an ability to predict when earthquakes will occur, but a team announced today a major step toward ...

Although predicting the timing of seismic catastrophes remains tricky, these geophysicists’ algorithm could help communities located near subduction zones.

When you hear the term earthquake prediction, it might sound like some kind of urban legend or misinformation. On the other hand, scientific verification using actual earthquake data is being ...

Sitting on the Pacific Ring of Fire, Japan has turned seismic catastrophe into a science, combining base isolation systems, ...

The final size of an earthquake typically cannot be predicted from its ongoing seismic radiation. Expanding observations reveal distinct exceptions, such as slow earthquakes, injection-induced ...

Two major seaquakes have struck the Atlantic, setting off tsunami monitoring stations along the US East Coast and sparking ...

Earthquake occurrence is notoriously difficult to predict. While some aspects of their spatiotemporal statistics can be relatively well captured by point-process models, very little is known regarding ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A geophysicist who predicted the Colombia earthquake has warned California is "in the crosshairs" of a huge tremor. Stefan Burns ...