Under the terms of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty all nuclear explosions are prohibited whether for military or peaceful purposes.

This causes a shockwave of stored energy to travel up towards Earth's surface, which we feel as an earthquake. The Cascadia subduction zone stretches from northern California all the way to Canada's ...

Millions of people across Southern California learned about a 5.2-magnitude earthquake that hit San Diego County on Monday ...

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and then all of a sudden the rock plates will jump,” triggering shaking that causes an earthquake, Steckler said. Earthquakes typically occur along edges of tectonic plates. But their impacts ...