Nearly 50 years ago, a puzzling earthquake beneath northern Utah jolted scientists' understanding of how Earth works. Now, ...

For decades, researchers thought that an October 1843 earthquake on the small Greek island of Chalke caused a powerful tsunami and led to the deaths of as many as 600 people. But a new analysis of ...

As oceans waves rise and fall, they apply forces to the sea floor below and generate seismic waves. These seismic waves are so powerful and widespread that they show up as a steady thrum on ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Few months go by without another devastating ...

The proliferation of data center construction faces many challenges. Power, cooling, security and space are just some of the variables that can make positioning and building a new data center ...

Seismic data acquisition captures subsurface reflections of controlled acoustic energy to map stratigraphy, structure, and potential hydrocarbon traps before drilling. It sits between exploration ...