NPR's Michel Martin speaks with earthquake scientist Judith Hubbard of Cornell University about the science behind the multiple earthquakes in Venezuela, Japan and northern California Wednesday.

Every year, the Earth shakes thousands of times. Most of those tremors go unnoticed, felt only by sensitive instruments buried deep in the ground. Occasionally, though, one of them tears apart cities, ...

Scientists used to think so-called “slow slip events” were “theoretically impossible.” Now these subtle tectonic shifts could ...

Google Earthquake Alert showcased estimated magnitude, epicentre from the Android user's location, and other crucial information so they can prepare before the tremor hits.

Scientists used artificial intelligence to find hidden slow fault movements. These silent events occur beneath California's ...

Myanmar’s March 28, 2025 earthquake did not just shake the ground around Mandalay, it ripped across the country on a scale ...

The two powerful earthquakes that struck Venezuela’s northern coast, killing more than 180 people, were an event known as a “doublet.” Doublet earthquakes happen when a pair of similar-sized quakes ...

Deep beneath the eastern Pacific Ocean about 1,000 miles off the coast of Ecuador, a fault line on the seafloor has been generating magnitude 6 earthquakes with almost clocklike regularity for at ...

A moving country, a cosmic first, and much more! We start with a giant earthquake that may have moved Japan. A new analysis reveals a 2011 earthquake sent a seismic wave all the way down to Earth's ...

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck off the coast of Cuba in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday, with “reports of shaking across Southwestern Florida,” according to a social media post from the National ...