Magnitude-7.8 earthquake strikes off Indonesia

This photo provided by Japan Society on March. 2, 2016, shows Ota Yasusuke's 2011, "Deserted Town," from a series on the abandoned animals of Fukushima, in an exhibit in New York marking the fifth anniversary of Japan's earthquake and tsunami.

In the wake of the 6.4-magnitude earthquake that struck Tainan, Taiwan earlier this month, killing 117 people, news reports quickly zeroed in on a massive collapsed building that appeared, amid its tangle of fallen beams and other debris, to have been

Earth emits a burst of carbon monoxide (CO) a few days before an earthquake, according to geophysicist Ramesh Singh, pictured left. He and co-workers from France and the United States report that this gas could be used as one of the precursor signals

The region over the earthquake-generating portion of the plate boundary off Japan is characterized by variations in water depth and steep topographic gradients of about six kilometers (3.7 miles). These gradients, according to the researchers, can hide 

The region over the earthquake-generating portion of the plate boundary off Japan is characterized by variations in water depth and steep topographic gradients of about six kilometers (3.7 miles). These gradients, according to the researchers, can hide