Seismologist posits that the Summerville 'ghost light' is linked to “earthquake lights”—a rare and poorly understood phenomenon.

But this ghost is far from the only reported rail sighting in the U.S. "There's a recurring theme. There are ghosts reported ...

While scientists can measure stress building up along fault lines, it’s impossible to know exactly when it will trigger an earthquake. We all have our faults, but the Earth’s crust is full of them.

Scientists have discovered a subtle, slow-moving creep in lab experiments that could hold the key to predicting catastrophic earthquakes before they strike.

Earthquakes are among the most devastating natural disasters, capable of causing significant damage and loss of life. From 1990 to 2024, several countries have experienced a high number of major ...

Maybe the different ghosts touch upon the environments that produce earthquake lights. Perhaps the kind ghosts are working to light the fault lines in the east.” “There’s tons of faults in ...

The team recreated earthquake-like conditions by clamping sheets together and applying shear forces, mimicking the movements along faults like California ... as a simple line separating broken ...

The strongest earthquake in 25 years was followed by hundreds of aftershocks. Taiwan lies along the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” the line of seismic faults encircling the Pacific Ocean where most of the ...

There's been news lately about the earthquake warning given to California of the "big one" that may hit ... early 20 th century before any of this research on the San Andreas fault-line had been ...

An economist's harrowing escape from fire, and her big ideas to rescue California from its insurance doom spiral.