A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck northern Chile in July 2024—and it wasn’t supposed to be that strong. Unlike Chile’s infamous shallow “megathrust” quakes, this one ruptured deep inside the ...
This illustration featuring earthquake simulation data from the San Francisco Bay Area shows how seismic energy is shaped and directed by local geology and how buildings and infrastructure respond to ...
A 4.9 magnitude earthquake struck in Argentina Tuesday northeast of Aconcagua, data from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) shows. The quake rattled parts of the Andes in both Argentina and ...
A powerful earthquake struck late on Thursday night in the remote waters of the Drake Passage, a stretch of ocean that lies between the southern tip of South America and the northern edge of ...