An Italian scientist, seismologist Gioacchino Giuliani, predicted a major earthquake around L'Aquila weeks ago but was reported to authorities for promoting panic and forced to remove his findings from Internet.

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Alaska's Mt. Redoubt volcano erupted late Monday and early Tuesday in "four large explosions," sending an ash plume an estimated 9 miles into the air, the Alaska Volcano Observatory reported. More Articles

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Scientists sailed Thursday to inspect an undersea volcano that has been erupting for days near Tonga -- shooting smoke, steam and ash thousands of feet into the sky above the South Pacific ocean. More Articles

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Yellowstone National Park is a restless place, even in the calmest of times.

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A powerful earthquake has hit near the South Pacific archipelago of Tonga, but there was no tsunami alert and no immediate report of injuries, Australian seismologists said.

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WATERFORD, Calif. — Phil Stine is not crazy, or possessed, or even that special, he says. He has no idea how he does what he does. From most accounts, he does it very well. Skip to next paragraph

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But seismologists, who've concluded that this jolt was not tied directly to any of Southern California's major fault lines, insist it could have been much more destructive and that it was just a reminder that the big one is indeed still looming.

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Everybody knows you can't predict an earthquake. The only way would be to get inside a time machine, go into the future, and send back a message. So seismologist Elizabeth Cochran of the University of California at Riverside will use thousands of computers to do just that.

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Hurricanes and tornadoes have seasons, but do earthquakes? They do in the Himalayas, and it's during the winter.

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Earthquakes happen to be surface shallow-focus , intermediate and deep ones. Seismologists mark out the boundary between the first two types at the depth of about 70 kilometres, its nature being still unclear.

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Bulusan Volcano in the central Philippines exploded before dawn on Sunday, while Taal Volcano near the capital showing obvious signs of unrest, a local radio reported.Residents of Casiguran town in Sorsogon province, where Bulusan Volcano sits, were surprised after they got a gli …

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New high-resolution seismic images have produced the best estimate to date of the temperature of Earth's extremely deep interior, researchers report.

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A giant blob of water the size of the Arctic Ocean has been discovered hundreds of miles beneath eastern Asia, scientists report. Researchers found the underground "ocean" while scanning seismic waves as they passed through Earth's interior.

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Like a dark storm cloud on the horizon, an earthquake can be a harbinger of bad news. A new study provides the strongest evidence yet that quakes can trigger volcanic activity.

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A small tsunami wave hit Japan's northernmost island on Saturday after a powerful north Pacific earthquake prompted tsunami warnings for northern Japan, Russia and a wide swathe of Japan's Pacific coast.

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The most damaging earthquake in Australia's history was caused by humans, new research says. The magnitude-5.6 quake that struck Newcastle, in New South Wales, on December 28, 1989, killed 13 people, injured 160, and caused 3.5 billion U.S. dollars worth of damage.

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A simulated 6.7-magnitude earthquake was set off in a New York laboratory on Tuesday to test how a house would stand up to the shaking.

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Turkey's top seismologist has warned that authorities are not enforcing measures to improve construction standards, a key element in efforts to minimize the impact of a major quake that is expected to hit the country's largest city, Istanbul, in the near future.

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A wet weekend may be enough to set off an earthquake. A spate of rain is all it takes to set off some earthquakes. That''s what a team of German geologists has discovered after monitoring swarms of tiny tremors in the mountains of Bavaria.

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With a muffled explosion deep inside a mountain, North Korea set the world on edge yesterday with a claim that it had detonated a nuclear bomb. But scientists poring over seismic signals from the blast are pondering why the detonation appears to have been so small.

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Two strong earthquakes shook the South Pacific on Sunday but there were no reports of major damage or injury and seismologists said they did not signal an increase in seismic activity in the quake-prone region. The quakes in Tonga and Papua New Guinea hit within 10 minutes but w …

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San Francisco has had a hundred years to prepare for its next great quake, so the city must be ready, right? Not quite, say scientists.

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The approaching anniversary of the great 1906 earthquake that leveled San Francisco has some seismologists turning their attention to a completely different section of the United States. It's the middle of the country, these scientists say, that could be at risk from the next "B

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A 5.1 magnitude earthquake jolted Occidental Mindoro, Oriental Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon and Palawan, known collectively as MIMAROPA, Tuesday morning, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) reported.

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