14-12-16 Stanford scientists have found evidence that sections of the fault responsible for the 9.0 magnitude Tohoku earthquake that devastated northern Japan in 2011 were relieving seismic stress at a gradually accelerating rate for years before the quake....

14-08-19 The risk of an eruption at Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano has increased, with signs of ongoing magma movement, Iceland's meteorological office says. 冰岛巴达本加火山喷发的危险提高，目前已有岩浆持续流动的迹象。 Seismic activity has been detected at Ba...

14-08-06 An earthquake has struck South Africa, killing one person and injuring some gold miners. 南非发生一场地震，造成一人死亡、一些金矿工人受伤。 The US Geological Survey said the 5.3 magnitude tremor was near Orkney, a centre of gold-mining operations. O...

14-05-02 The oldest sections of transform faults, such as the North Anatolian Fault Zone (NAFZ) and the San Andreas Fault, produce the largest earthquakes, putting important limits on the potential seismic hazard for less mature parts of fault zones, accordi...

14-04-15 A 5.1-magnitude earthquake shook Nicaragua on Sunday night, the third quake to hit the Central American nation within a week. 上周日晚，一场5.1级地震袭击尼加拉瓜，这是该国一周内发生的第三次地震。 Managuans spent the night in the streets as a number...

14-04-02 Chile has declared three northern regions hit by a 8.2 magnitude earthquake to be disaster areas. 智利宣布北部三处遭8.2级地震袭击的区域为灾区。 At least five people are known to have died and tens of thousands of people have been evacuated. The quak...

14-03-31 The largest earthquakes occur where oceanic plates move beneath continents. Obviously, water trapped in the boundary between both plates has a dominant（占优势的） influence on the earthquake rupture process. Analyzing the great Chile earthquake of...

14-03-13 In the global aftershock zone that followed the major April 2012 Indian Ocean earthquake, seismologists noticed an unusual pattern -- a dynamic stress shadow, or period of seismic silence when some faults（断层） near failure were temporarily render...

14-01-14 Four years after the January 2010 earthquake, 145,000 people still remain homeless in Haiti. A cheap and simple technology to repair earthquake damaged buildings -- developed at the University of Sheffield -- could help to reduce these delays by qui...

14-01-05 Rare earthquake lights are more likely to occur on or near rift（裂缝） environments, where subvertical（接近垂直的） faults allow stress-induced electrical currents to flow rapidly to the surface, according to a new study published in the Jan./Feb....