A new kind of earthquake has been detected in western Canada, one that shakes the ground slower and longer than typical seismic events. These earthquakes, recorded during hydraulic fracturing for oil ...

Stanford researchers have created the first-ever global map of a rare earthquake type that occurs not in Earth's crust but in our planet's mantle, the layer sandwiched between the thin crust and Earth ...

Meteorologist Kristen Currie explains different types of earthquakes after one of this century’s most powerful earthquakes struck off the coast of Russia. The parents of Savitha Shanmugasundaram, one ...

Guerrero, Mexico is an active site with several recent major earthquakes, but also a small area called the ‘Guerrero seismic gap’ (pictured) where no earthquakes have occurred for more than a century.