With five active volcanoes in Washington state, the threat of a repeat eruption looms large in many minds. Scientists at the ...

There’s the seismometer, that “fancy microphone in ... needles recording the Earth’s shaking. Today it’s all digital. Each number on the scale represents a 10-fold increase in a quake ...

In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central Party authorities to state media at the beginning of that year. These directives were issued on an ...

Every engineer is going to have a bad day, but only an unlucky few will have a day so bad that it registers on a seismometer. We’ve always had a morbid fascination with engineering ...

In a troubling trend, yet another earthquake has hit a San Antonio-area town. Residents in San Antonio, about 45 miles from ...

At the Observatory’s Vancouver warehouse, scientists spend months thoroughly testing their seismometers before deploying them out in the mountains. "We don’t want to put something on the landscape and ...

At around 1 am local time on 26 December, a seismometer in Australia detected a massive 9.1 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Sumatra in Indonesia. About 20 minutes after the earthquake ...

The earthquake was detected on our seismometer site in Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire, however, we have not received any reports that it was felt by anyone.” ...

'Colossal' explosions have filled the skies in Syria as Israeli strikes are said to have targeted military sites in the 'the heaviest strikes' in the area for more than a decade - with blasts ...

Zero intensity is detected by seismometers but not perceptible to people. The Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011, which spawned the giant tsunami that triggered the Fukushima nuclear ...