The earthquake that struck the ArkLaTex on March 5 may have been among the largest in recent memory, but it was not an ...

Four earthquakes up to magnitude 4.0 shook Louisiana, raising questions about hidden faults, seismic risks, and the region’s rarely studied geology.

A magnitude 4.9 earthquake struck northern Louisiana on March 5, 2026, rattling residents across a wide swath of the state and registering as the second-strongest seismic event ever recorded in ...

Oklahoma has had its fair share of earthquakes, but more recently, smaller ones have been popping up. If you live near El ...

Global distribution of natural and induced seismicity. Natural earthquakes with moment magnitude higher than 5 are color-coded according to their hypocenter depth (upper right colorbar, U.S.

Earthquake-induced soil liquefaction, often described as the phenomena of seismic generation of excess porewater pressures and consequent softening of granular soils, is a leading cause of earthquake ...

At the Bedretto Underground Laboratory, scientists are inducing tiny earthquakes along a natural fault zone to learn what can ...

Earthquakes in the American state of Utah, the Soultz-sous-Forêts region of France or in the Dutch province of Groningen should not be able to occur even if the subsurface has been exploited for ...

Over the last decade, seismologists have demonstrated a troubling corollary of the extraordinary shale boom: the disposal of liquid waste from fracking operations and other fossil fuel production has ...