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A strong earthquake shook western Japan on Tuesday, but no major damage or life-threatening injuries were reported. https://phys.org/news/2026-01-earthquake-western-japan-major-tsunami.html Environment Tue, 06 Jan 2026 04:40:01 EST news686895873 A swarm of at least a dozen earthquakes reaching up to magnitude 3.9 rattled San Ramon near San Francisco, the U.S. Geological Survey reports. https://phys.org/news/2025-12-earthquake-swarm-rattle-northern-california.html Earth Sciences Mon, 22 Dec 2025 06:48:39 EST news685608414 A 6.9 magnitude earthquake shook northeastern Japan and caused small tsunami waves but no apparent damage Friday, days after a stronger quake in the same region. https://phys.org/news/2025-12-magnitude-earthquake-small-tsunami-northeastern.html Environment Fri, 12 Dec 2025 04:22:58 EST news684735743 Japan issued a megaquake advisory Tuesday after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck off the eastern coast of Aomori, the northernmost prefecture of Japan's main island of Honshu, and just south of the northern island of Hokkaido. Damage from this quake was modest—34 mostly mild injuries and some damage to roads and buildings. https://phys.org/news/2025-12-japan-issued-advisory-megaquake-country.html Environment Wed, 10 Dec 2025 04:50:01 EST news684564381 Two earthquakes were recorded within hours of each other near Marion, North Carolina, and witnesses report they felt shaking miles away, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. https://phys.org/news/2025-10-earthquakes-hours-nc-mountain-community.html Earth Sciences Mon, 27 Oct 2025 12:50:04 EDT news680788107 The ground-shaking that an earthquake generates is only a fraction of the total energy that a quake releases. A quake can also generate a flash of heat, along with a domino-like fracturing of underground rocks. But exactly how much energy goes into each of these three processes is exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, to measure in the field. https://phys.org/news/2025-09-geologists-energy-earthquake.html Earth Sciences Tue, 16 Sep 2025 10:55:04 EDT news677238901 Desperate Afghans clawed through rubble in search of missing loved ones after a strong earthquake killed some 800 people and injured more than 2,500 in eastern Afghanistan, according to figures provided Monday by the Taliban government. https://phys.org/news/2025-09-magnitude-earthquake-eastern-afghanistan-pakistan.html Environment Mon, 01 Sep 2025 09:44:20 EDT news675938656 A volcano in Russia's far east erupted on Wednesday, Russian scientists said, hours after a major quake prompted evacuations and tsunami alerts across parts of the Pacific coast. https://phys.org/news/2025-07-volcano-erupts-quake-russia-east.html Environment Wed, 30 Jul 2025 13:20:01 EDT news673098641 Hours after a 6.2 magnitude earthquake shook Turkey's biggest city, sending panicked residents racing onto the streets, Istanbul remained on edge late Wednesday as a string of aftershocks continued to rattle nerves. https://phys.org/news/2025-04-powerful-magnitude-quake-istanbul-coast.html Environment Wed, 23 Apr 2025 14:50:58 EDT news664638649 The 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake struck southern Turkey and Syria along the East Anatolian Fault. The magnitude 7.8 quake and its magnitude 7.5 aftershock devastated the region, killing tens of thousands of people and destroying hundreds of thousands of buildings. https://phys.org/news/2025-04-turkey-syria-temblors-reveal-piece.html Earth Sciences Tue, 15 Apr 2025 14:44:02 EDT news663947041 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 southern Italian city of Naples was struck by a 4.4-magnitude quake early Thursday that caused only minor damage and sent 11 people to the hospital, the most serious suffering contusions after part of a ceiling collapsed, officials said. https://phys.org/news/2025-03-naples-struck-magnitude-quake-minor.html Environment Thu, 13 Mar 2025 14:50:01 EDT news661093079 A tsunami advisory was issued for part of southwest Japan after a magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck Monday, but the warnings to stay away from coastal areas were later lifted. A few instances of minor damage were reported. https://phys.org/news/2025-01-tsunami-magnitude-earthquake-rattles-southwestern.html Environment Tue, 14 Jan 2025 06:10:01 EST news656056288 A magnitude-6.1 earthquake rattled buildings on Vanuatu's main island early Sunday but did not appear to have caused major damage, five days after a more powerful quake wreaked havoc and killed 12 people. https://phys.org/news/2024-12-large-earthquake-battered-vanuatu.html Environment Sun, 22 Dec 2024 05:28:20 EST news654067694 Small tsunami waves splashed ashore on remote Japanese islands Tuesday morning after an earthquake that may have been triggered by volcanic activity. https://phys.org/news/2024-09-small-tsunami-splash-ashore-remote.html Environment Tue, 24 Sep 2024 04:10:01 EDT news646369085 Japan, one of the most earthquake-prone nations on earth, issued its first-ever "megaquake advisory" last week after a powerful quake struck off the southeastern coast of the southern main island of Kyushu. https://phys.org/news/2024-08-japan-megaquake-advisory.html Environment Thu, 15 Aug 2024 08:50:57 EDT news642930651 The December 2020 earthquake near the Croatian town of Petrinja (magnitude 6.4) was felt in all Croatia and in many places in the neighboring countries, and caused serious damage at the site. A recent Croatian-Hungarian collaboration has analyzed the horizontal and vertical displacements caused by the quake and placed them in a regional geodynamic interpretation frame. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-magnitude-displacements-december-petrinja-earthquake.html Earth Sciences Mon, 24 Jun 2024 13:09:08 EDT news638453346 A 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of southern Peru on Sunday but there was no immediate threat of tsunami, government scientists said. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-earthquake-magnitude-southern-peru.html Environment Sun, 16 Jun 2024 15:02:34 EDT news637768946 The Peach State is not typically a hotbed of seismic activity, but residents in pockets of North Georgia have been feeling some unexpected vibrations lately after the area was jolted by four small earthquakes over the last week. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-earthquakes-north-georgia.html Environment Tue, 11 Jun 2024 08:00:01 EDT news637311242 Earthquakes early Monday again struck Japan's north-central region of Ishikawa, still recovering from the destruction left by a powerful quake on Jan. 1, but the latest shaking caused no major damage. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-earthquakes-north-central-japan-collapse.html Environment Mon, 03 Jun 2024 03:58:10 EDT news636605882 Taiwan's capital was hit by a series of earthquakes overnight into the early hours of Tuesday, with the Central Weather Administration saying the strongest was a magnitude-6.3 tremor originating in eastern Hualien. https://phys.org/news/2024-04-taiwan-numerous-quakes-strongest-magnitude.html Environment Mon, 22 Apr 2024 15:28:14 EDT news633018491 During the Apollo missions of the 1970s, several seismometers were flown to the moon, where they collected data on lunar seismic trembling for eight years. The data showed some lunar quakes were as powerful as a magnitude 5. https://phys.org/news/2024-04-seismic-sensor-moonquakes.html Space Exploration Fri, 12 Apr 2024 11:29:04 EDT news632140141 In the early morning of 22 May 2021, a magnitude 7.4 quake rattled China's remote Maduo County on the Tibetan Plateau. It was the most recent in a series of nine earthquakes with a magnitude of 7 or greater since 1997, and its surface rupture was twice as long as the global average for similarly sized quakes. The tremor occurred on the eastern part of the relatively immature left-lateral Jiangcuo fault system, which slips slowly, about 1 millimeter per year, and was unmapped before the quake. https://phys.org/news/2024-04-fault-maturity-quakes.html Earth Sciences Thu, 11 Apr 2024 13:30:02 EDT news632061001 The strongest earthquake in a quarter-century rocked Taiwan Wednesday morning, killing nine people, stranding dozens at quarries and a national park, and sending some residents scrambling out the windows of damaged buildings. https://phys.org/news/2024-04-taiwan-strongest-earthquake-years-dead.html Environment Wed, 03 Apr 2024 04:16:23 EDT news631336568 A strong and shallow undersea earthquake shook the eastern side of Indonesia's main island of Java on Friday, causing some damage but no immediate reports of casualties. https://phys.org/news/2024-03-strong-earthquake-indonesia-java-island.html Environment Fri, 22 Mar 2024 10:52:06 EDT news630323518 A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck a sparsely populated part of China's western Xinjiang region early Tuesday, killing three people and causing extensive damage in freezing cold weather, officials said. It was the latest in a series of temblors and natural disasters to hit the country's west. https://phys.org/news/2024-01-magnitude-earthquake-rattles-western-china.html Environment Tue, 23 Jan 2024 04:06:48 EST news625205204 His face hidden under a humble straw hat, the man silently watched as several helmeted rescue workers carefully lifted from the rubble his wife's body, wrapped in blue plastic on a stretcher. https://phys.org/news/2024-01-scenes-loss-play-japan-western.html Environment Fri, 05 Jan 2024 08:10:06 EST news623664595 A series of powerful earthquakes that hit western Japan have left at least 55 people dead and damaged thousands of buildings, vehicles and boats. Officials warned Tuesday that more quakes could lie ahead. https://phys.org/news/2024-01-powerful-earthquakes-dead-destroy-japan.html Environment Tue, 02 Jan 2024 04:43:03 EST news623392972 A powerful earthquake shook the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu on Thursday evening, but countries in the region said there was no threat of a tsunami. https://phys.org/news/2023-12-powerful-earthquake-south-pacific-nation.html Environment Thu, 07 Dec 2023 11:06:15 EST news621169574 A strong, deep undersea earthquake shook the eastern side of Indonesia on Wednesday with no immediate reports of casualties or damages in the area. https://phys.org/news/2023-11-strong-earthquake-eastern-indonesia-casualties.html Environment Wed, 22 Nov 2023 04:47:05 EST news619850823