Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

Researchers create labquakes by sliding together blocks of rock—known as friction experiments—to generate the laboratory equivalent of earthquakes, or stick-slips, that they then monitor with ...

Friday's earthquake in Paramus and the one on April 5, 2024, in Tewksbury differ in three key ways: magnitude, location and depth. The factors play a role in who feels an earthquake, how intense ...