the small size and depth of these recent quakes make linking them to specific faults challenging. “It’s hard for us to tie ones this small to any specific fault,” Tobin added. The Pacific ...

Four space tourists splash down successfully in pacific after orbiting around Earth's north and south poles, a first of its ...

Taiwan's worst modern quake, a 1999 magnitude 7.7 temblor killed 2,415 people, damaged buildings around the island of 23 million people and led to tightened building codes , better response times and ...

The locations of the thrust faults identified in the velocity models are indicated by the black lines; faults whose existence is uncertain are marked with dashed lines. Low velocity Holocene and Late ...

A tsunami warning has been issued for Papua New Guinea after a powerful magnitude 6.9 earthquake shook the Pacific island ...

No warning was issued for New Zealand. Papua New Guinea sits on the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” the arc of seismic faults around the Pacific Ocean where much of the world’s earthquake and volcanic ...