To create those maps, researchers deploy seismometers on the surface—little machines that sense and chronicle all sorts of vibrations, including earthquakes. Seismic waves are a bit like music.

Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences Alan Kafka and an international team reveal COVID-19 shutdowns markedly reduced Earth’s seismic “noise” As societies around the world shut down ...

Each story in the KXAN Data Hub is updated as new data becomes available. AUSTIN (KXAN) — When you think of earthquakes in the U.S., Texas is probably not the first state that comes to mind.

He said Albania felt an expression of gratitude for the tens of thousands of Albanians who were welcomed by Italy when communism ... in the aftermath of the 2019 earthquake. Experts say the ...

BOISE, Idaho — In March of 2020, Southern Idaho was rattled by the biggest earthquake in almost 40 years. The earthquake was originally thought to have happened along the Sawtooth fault line.

Sforzacosta, a village of about 2,000 inhabitants in the municipality of Macerata, is in the Marche region of central Italy, where life was brutally disrupted in August 2016 by an earthquake that ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency has a unique seismic scale called shindo that measures the degree of shaking in the event of an earthquake. This set of numbers — ranging from 0 to 7 — is ...

A magnitude 6.2 earthquake has hit off the coast of southern Chile but there are no immediate reports of injuries or damage and no warnings of a tsunami.

According to a press release, the level was raised from normal to advisory because of an increase in seismic activity and ground deformation that’s been ongoing since the spring. The observatory ...