With Australia's most significant earthquake disaster occurring more than 35 years ago, many people consider quakes to be quite rare in Australia. But it turns out they're more common than you'd think ...

A decade of river data shows how the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake triggered lasting sediment shifts - and long-term risks - in ...

Earthquakes form when two tectonic plates moving against one another get stuck, allowing the fault to build up stress.

How do tsunamis form? What to know after Russia's earthquake What causes a tsunami, and how could a powerful earthquake like the one off Russia's coast trigger massive waves? Wednesday, July 30th ...

Deep beneath the Earth’s crust, a geological mystery has puzzled scientists for decades: how do large, pure gold nuggets form within veins of quartz? A new study led by geologists from Monash ...

By Harrison Tasoff, UCSB On May 12, 2008, the magnitude 7.9 Wenchuan Earthquake shook central China, its destructive tremors spreading from the flank of the Longmen Shan, or Dragon's Gate Mountains, ...

Tsunamis can occur when an underwater earthquake rapidly displaces massive amounts of water, leading to a large, long wave that builds in intensity as it crosses the ocean.

Weather Ask the Meteorologist: How do tsunamis form? Following the major 8.8M earthquake in Russia, tsunami alerts were issued for Hawaii, Alaska and the Continental U.S. West Coast Wednesday.