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Greece takes precautions after series of earthquakes near Santorini. No damage reported. Schools closed, residents advised to drain swimming pools. Experts...

Greece is astride a key tectonic fault with a long history of seismic restlessness

Beyonce is the most decorated artist in Grammys history, and her album releases have both triggered cultural earthquakes and reshaped music industry norms.

While earthquakes have caused disasters since early California, destruction from wildfires is a modern phenomenon

Ethiopia’s Afar and Oromia regions have been hit by several earthquakes and tremors since the beginning of 2025. The strongest, with a magnitude of 5.7, struck on 4 January. The US Geological Survey and the German Research Centre for Geosciences reported that its epicentre was 142km east of the capital,…

How does creeping stress ignite a cataclysmic earthquake? A new study has answers.

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planets in the solar system have them too?

Government panel reveals more than 80 per cent probability of massive earthquake along Nankai Trough, an 800km-long undersea trench near Japan’s Pacific coast

The Bárðarbunga volcano system was responsible for Iceland's largest eruption for 300 years back in 2014. After a recent increase in seismic activity, could it be about to erupt again?