https://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. On March 28, 2025, a major earthquake with a moment magnitude (Mw) of 7.7 struck Mandalay, central Myanmar (referred to as the 2025 Myanmar earthquake). This event caused severe shaking and substantial damage in Myanmar and neighboring countries. Aftershock distribution extended southward from the epicenter, indicating predominant southward rupture propagation. https://phys.org/news/2025-07-supershear-boomerang-rupture-myanmar-earthquake.html Earth Sciences Thu, 03 Jul 2025 14:19:02 EDT news670771141 A 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck far off southwest Australia on Wednesday, but no tsunami warning was issued. https://phys.org/news/2025-04-earthquake-indian-ocean-australian-coast.html Environment Wed, 16 Apr 2025 04:50:04 EDT news663997217 A strong 7.7 magnitude earthquake rocked the Thai capital Friday, causing buildings to sway. https://phys.org/news/2025-03-strong-earthquake-thai-capital-bangkok.html Environment Fri, 28 Mar 2025 05:23:05 EDT news662358181 The magnitude 4.8 Tewksbury earthquake surprised millions of people on the U.S. East Coast who felt the shaking from this largest instrumentally recorded earthquake in New Jersey since 1900. https://phys.org/news/2024-10-closer-jersey-earthquake-rupture.html Earth Sciences Wed, 02 Oct 2024 15:50:03 EDT news647103001 A moderate earthquake shook Italy's northeastern coast early Wednesday, causing some cracks in buildings and prompting at least one health clinic to evacuate. There were no immediate reports of injuries. https://phys.org/news/2022-11-magnitude-quake-italy-adriatic-coast.html Environment Wed, 09 Nov 2022 05:01:00 EST news587192458 Earthquakes are often imagined as originating from a single point where the seismic waves are strongest, the hypocenter underground or the epicenter at the Earth's surface, with seismic energy radiating outward in a circular pattern. But this simplified model fails to account for the complex geometry of the actual fault systems where earthquakes occur. The real situation may be much more complex—and more interesting. In some remarkable cases, a phenomenon called "supershear" rupture can occur, where the earthquake rupture propagates along the fault at a speed faster than the seismic waves themselves can travel—a process analogous to a sonic boom. https://phys.org/news/2020-07-inchworm-pattern-indonesian-earthquake-rupture.html Earth Sciences Mon, 27 Jul 2020 09:10:01 EDT news515058699 A slight earthquake rattled Romans awake early Monday. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. https://phys.org/news/2020-05-slight-earthquake-rattles-rome.html Environment Mon, 11 May 2020 03:41:17 EDT news508387274 An 4.5-magnitude earthquake shook central Bulgaria on Friday but there were no reports of any injuries or damage. https://phys.org/news/2020-05-quake-magnitude-felt-bulgaria-capital.html Environment Fri, 01 May 2020 12:11:44 EDT news507553902 Indonesia's capital Jakarta was rocked Tuesday by a strong earthquake which forced some buildings to be evacuated, but there was no immediate tsunami threat or reported injuries, a government agency said. https://phys.org/news/2018-01-quake-indonesia-java-sway-capital.html Environment Tue, 23 Jan 2018 02:21:15 EST news435896470 San Francisco Bay Area residents were shaken out of their slumber by a magnitude 4.4 earthquake that was felt over a wide area but caused no major damage early Thursday. https://phys.org/news/2018-01-magnitude-earthquake-san-francisco-bay.html Environment Thu, 04 Jan 2018 09:23:35 EST news434280202 A rare 5.4-magnitude earthquake hit South Korea's southeast Wednesday afternoon, the second most powerful quake on record in a country that seldom experiences significant tremors. https://phys.org/news/2017-11-quake-southeast-south-korea-tremor.html Environment Wed, 15 Nov 2017 02:46:55 EST news429936408 The strongest earthquake to hit Montana in more than half a century sent bartenders jumping over bars, food falling off grocery store shelves and woke up residents and dogs. https://phys.org/news/2017-07-western-montana-rattled-strong-earthquakes.html Environment Thu, 06 Jul 2017 03:56:38 EDT news418532193 The syringe slides in between the thumb and index finger. Then, with a click, a microchip is injected in the employee's hand. Another "cyborg" is created. https://phys.org/news/2017-04-cyborgs-employees-implanted-microchips.html Hi Tech & Innovation Mon, 03 Apr 2017 09:20:33 EDT news410430025 Authorities say an earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale has hit Romania, reverberating through the capital and central Romania. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. https://phys.org/news/2016-12-moderate-earthquake-romania-injuries.html Environment Wed, 28 Dec 2016 04:14:54 EST news402120891 Japanese researchers have revealed a relationship between helium levels in groundwater and the amount of stress exerted on inner rock layers of the earth, found at locations near the epicenter of the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake. Scientists hope the finding will lead to the development of a monitoring system that catches stress changes that could foreshadow a big earthquake. https://phys.org/news/2016-11-groundwater-helium-potential-earthquake.html Earth Sciences Tue, 29 Nov 2016 05:00:01 EST news399614999 (Phys.org)—A team of researchers from France, the U.S. and Italy has found evidence from the Tohoku-Oki earthquake that sensors that measure changes in gravity might offer a way to warn people of impending disaster faster than traditional methods. In their paper published in the journal Nature Communications, the group describes how they analyzed data from gravity sensors near the epicenter of the Tohoku-Oki quake back in 2011 and found that it was possible to isolate gravitational changes due to the earthquake from the noise of other events. https://phys.org/news/2016-11-gravity-sensors-earlier-earthquakes.html Earth Sciences Wed, 23 Nov 2016 08:40:02 EST news399111690 A moderately strong earthquake has rattled the Tokyo region, but there are no immediate reports of damage or injuries. https://phys.org/news/2016-07-quake-jolts-tokyo-region-tsunami.html Earth Sciences Sun, 17 Jul 2016 05:32:07 EDT news387952318 A series of more than 30 earthquakes that rattled the Reno area over the past two days occurred on the most significant fault structure in the area, and scientists are monitoring for potentially bigger shock waves to follow, experts said Wednesday. https://phys.org/news/2015-12-series-earthquakes-rattles-reno-nevada.html Earth Sciences Wed, 23 Dec 2015 14:01:52 EST news370101705 A magnitude-5.8 earthquake has rocked south-central Alaska, but the U.S. Geological Survey says there's little likelihood of damage. https://phys.org/news/2015-06-magnitude-quake-south-central-alaska.html Earth Sciences Thu, 25 Jun 2015 03:52:30 EDT news354423142 Two moderate earthquakes have struck central California, one of which was widely felt across the region. https://phys.org/news/2014-11-moderate-quakes-widely-felt-california.html Earth Sciences Thu, 20 Nov 2014 09:47:25 EST news335699238 Two earthquakes measuring over 5 in magnitude—the biggest yet—have shaken Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano after the country issued an aviation red alert warning that an ash-emitting eruption may be imminent. https://phys.org/news/2014-08-earthquakes-magnitude-iceland-volcano.html Earth Sciences Sun, 24 Aug 2014 05:57:36 EDT news328078646 A strong earthquake struck off eastern Indonesia on Sunday, causing panic among residents in East Timor, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage and there was no danger of a tsunami. https://phys.org/news/2013-09-strong-quake-indonesia-tsunami-threat.html Earth Sciences Sun, 01 Sep 2013 13:51:25 EDT news297262274 Earthquakes never occur when you need one, so a team led by Johns Hopkins structural engineers is shaking up a building themselves in the name of science and safety. https://phys.org/news/2013-07-man-made-quakes-safer-sturdier.html Engineering Wed, 31 Jul 2013 14:02:32 EDT news294498113 A 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia's main island of Java and was felt hundreds of kilometers away in the capital, Jakarta, but no major damage was reported. https://phys.org/news/2013-06-powerful-quake-indonesia-coast.html Earth Sciences Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:01:16 EDT news290354466 (Phys.org) —A team of researchers with members from the U.S., Germany and Ukraine is claiming in a paper they've had published in the journal Planetary and Space Science, that they have found evidence to prove the Tunguska event was caused by a meteor that exploded in the atmosphere above the Russian plain. https://phys.org/news/2013-06-reexamination-samples-meteoritic-tunguska-cosmic.html Space Exploration Wed, 12 Jun 2013 11:30:01 EDT news290254727 This morning at 05:45 CEST, the earth trembled beneath the Okhotsk Sea in the Pacific Northwest. The quake, with a magnitude of 8.2, took place at an exceptional depth of 605 kilometers. Because of the great depth of the earthquake a tsunami is not expected and there should also be no major damage due to shaking. https://phys.org/news/2013-05-strong-earthquake-exceptional-depth.html Earth Sciences Fri, 24 May 2013 08:31:58 EDT news288603110 A new University of Utah study has identified hundreds of previously unrecognized small aftershocks that happened after Utah's deadly Crandall Canyon mine collapse in 2007. The aftershocks suggest the collapse was as big – and perhaps bigger – than shown in another study by the university in 2008. https://phys.org/news/2013-04-disaster-hundreds-aftershocks.html Earth Sciences Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:30:08 EDT news285522739 Google said Wednesday that it has bought a Canadian startup specializing in getting machines to understand what people are trying to say. https://phys.org/news/2013-03-google-machine-startup.html Business Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:28:51 EDT news282414519 On 31 August 2012 a magnitude 7.6 earthquake ruptured deep beneath the sea floor of the Philippine Trench, a powerful intraplate earthquake centered seaward of the plate boundary. In the wake of the main shock, sensors detected a flurry of aftershocks, counting 110 in total. https://phys.org/news/2013-01-aftershocks-philippine-quake-nearby-megathrust.html Earth Sciences Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:30:03 EST news277452318 (AP)—The U.S. Geological Survey says an earthquake measuring 5.5 magnitude has hit the eastern part of Indonesia. There are no immediate reports of damage. https://phys.org/news/2012-11-earthquake-eastern-indonesia.html Earth Sciences Wed, 28 Nov 2012 07:33:02 EST news273310376