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 mountain regions.

Scientists have finally solved a long-standing mystery about the geologic process behind these large pieces of gold found in quartz rock.

To study how earthquakes help form the gold nuggets, scientists conducted lab experiments with quartz slabs that were submerged in gold-rich liquid.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.