Tina Dura, a geosciences professor at Virginia Tech, was the lead author on a new study that examined the risk of major coastal flooding in Washington, Oregon, and Northern California from two factors ...

A major earthquake in the Pacific Northwest could sink land and expand flood zones, putting thousands more at risk.

A 9.0-magnitude temblor struck Japan's eastern coastline on March 11, 2011, becoming the largest earthquake ever recorded ... which exists along boundaries of tectonic plates that are slowly ...

Experts now believe there is an 80 per cent chance of a magnitude nine tremor occurring in the Nankai Trough off Japan's Pacific ... as jet planes. In 2011, a magnitude nine earthquake struck ...

Today, whenever there’s an earthquake ... quake forecasting. Japan, another seismically active country, poured tens of millions of dollars into a similar program. Plate tectonics suggest that ...

Using fault geometry data, scientists simulated the Noto Peninsula earthquake and explained why uplift varied so drastically ...

It was history. On March 11, 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake, magnitude 9.0, struck 80 miles off the Northeast Coast of Japan, generating a series ...

For communities living in the shadow of a volcano, early warning systems are a lifeline—but mistrust in these warnings can ...

Southern California is seismically active due to its location on tectonic plate boundaries, having experienced major quakes like the 1994 Northridge event. A strong but shallow earthquake with a ...

Don’t worry: It’s general enough to apply to the rest of Japan. But for busy people, here’s a summary of things you should know about what to do before, during and after an earthquake in Japan.