Mount Rainier was experiencing "the most significant seismic activity" at the volcano in more than 15 years as an "earthquake ...

Tectonic plates are massive slabs of Earth's lithosphere that float atop the semi-fluid mantle, constantly shifting and ...

Hundreds of small earthquakes have rattled Mount Rainier this week in the largest swarm of tremors in more than a decade.

Japan has warned of a 70–80% chance of a magnitude 8–9 earthquake along the Nankai Trough within the next 30 years, which ...

MT. RAINIER, Wash. — A swarm of small earthquakes was detected at Mount Rainier Tuesday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey Cascades Volcano Observatory (CVO) and the Pacific Northwest ...

Mount Rainier on Tuesday experienced its largest seismic activity since 2009, with a swarm of small earthquakes detected.

A Japanese researcher has found that two small islands in southwestern Japan moved nearly 10 centimeters apart in just three ...

Disaster management expert Bülent Özmen, a faculty member at Gazi University’s Faculty of Engineering, Department of Civil ...

Mount Rainier, the active volcano towering above southwestern Washington state, started rumbling — very lightly — on Tuesday.

Chile's glaciers are facing a higher risk of collapse and landslides due to rising temperatures and the country's seismic and ...