SINGAPORE (Reuters) -The 8.8 magnitude quake off Russia that triggered tsunami warnings across the Pacific occurred on what is known as a "megathrust fault", where the denser Pacific Plate is sliding ...

S. population is "somewhat likely" to experience a damaging earthquake in the coming decades, according to recently published ...

The Pacific Northwest sits atop one of the most dangerous fault systems on Earth, yet daily life from Seattle to Portland ...

A shallow megathrust earthquake hit Pacitan City, East Java, early Friday, damaging homes and injuring at least 36 people, ...

The Carrizo Plain in eastern San Luis Obispo County contains the most strikingly graphic portion of the San Andreas Fault. Sediment cores recovered from the Pacific seafloor suggest that megathrust ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - An updated 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck Pacitan, East Java, at around 1:00 a.m. Friday, February 6, 2026, according to the Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency ( BMKG ...

The Pacific Northwest is being taken for a ride, and a major earthquake off the coast of Oregon this week was the latest jolt reminding residents just how fragile the region’s future really is. The ...

That expedition used Japan's ultra-advanced drilling ship Chikyū, and marked the first time scientists had ever drilled directly into the fault zone of a recent megathrust earthquake. They drilled ...

Researchers demonstrate a seaplane-type UAV using GNSS-A can precisely measure seafloor deformation Megathrust earthquakes are large earthquakes that occur on faults found along the boundaries between ...