News Stories relating to "earthquakes"

There is increasing scientific speculation that some earthquakeactivity may belinked by complex and little-understood processes,but little or no evidence that quakes in one part of theworld may result in seismic activity elsewhere.Nevertheless, since the recent 7.8 quake that devastatedSichuan Province in China, the world has experienced...

Scientists know that rain can trigger earthquakes. They also know that earthquakes and volcanoes may somehow be related. But do earthquakes trigger volcanoes?

A new study says that yes, they do. According to LiveScience.com, "The violent rumblings of a major earthquake can almost immediately intensify nearby volcanic eruptions." This...

It's been discovered that the quakes produced by the San Andreas Fault in California occur at regular intervals. This previously unnoticed cycle gives researchers hope that they'll be able to predict them in the future.

Robert Sanders of U.C. Berkeley News writes that a new study by seismologists shows the frequency of tiny microquakes...

Everyone in Los Angeles should get a pet mouse. Why?Because mice can predict earthquakes. Japanese researchers say mice act strangely after being exposed to low levels of electromagnetism of the kind which is often in the atmosphere just before a major quake. These electromagnetism levels are too low for humans to notice, which is why we need...

Earthquakes don't ever really go away. Australia's Northern Territory felt tremors that geologists say are aftershocks from earthquakes that occurred 70 years ago. Mark Leonard has recorded aftershocks of earthquakes from as long ago as 1938 and 1941. He says, "?I would say the Simpson Desert (tremors) are?aftershocks because in 1938 and then...

There have been 108 earthquakes over 5.0 magnitude in the last 30 days, and now a 7.9 magnitude earthquake has struck Alaska, 75 miles south of Fairbanks. Scientists are struggling to understand how to predict quakes in time to provide effective warning, but so far they have only managed to get a few minutes' notice. They don't know why quakes...

It seems like an earthquake happens somewhere every day. Scientists are trying to learn how to predict them and to understand what causes them. Now Maya Tolstoy of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University says ocean tides may be the basic cause of earthquakes, including those on dry land.

Cracks on the ocean floor...

If we knew an earthquake was on the way, vulnerable populations could be evacuated and tragedies like the huge death toll in India could be prevented. Scientists have tried to discover a method for predicting earthquakes for years, without success. Now Russian scientists have discovered that earthquakes may be linked to the cycles of the moon,...