Misinformation about Japan's recent earthquake has been spreading online, leading communications minister Yoshimasa Hayashi to issue a warning.

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A sports car is crushed by earthquake debris in a Seattle parking lot on March 4, 2001. (FEMA photo by Kevin Galvin) In May of last year, after a 13-month slumber, the ground beneath Washington’s ...

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In early 2025, the Greek island of Santorini was rocked by a swarm of seismic activity, an event that led to school closures and the evacuation of thousands of residents. Now, scientists have used ...

After Mexico scored a goal to defeat defending champions Germany in their opening World Cup match on Sunday, a tweet suggesting that celebrating fans had triggered an "artificial earthquake" in Mexico ...

Researchers have used artificial intelligence to develop a new tool for assessing earthquake damage, a leap that could ultimately help first responders in making critical rescue decisions, suggests a ...

Just after sunrise on Saturday, a satellite set its long-range camera on the city of Mandalay in Myanmar, not far from the epicenter of Friday’s 7.7 magnitude earthquake that devastated the Southeast ...

An earthquake to better understand earthquakes: Researchers have triggered an artificial earthquake in the Alps. Researchers from RWTH Aachen, ETH Zurich, and the Italian Instituto Nazionale di ...

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