The giant earthquake that ripped through central Myanmar earlier this year did something seismologists rarely see: it slid along a fault with almost eerie efficiency, converting tectonic strain into ...

The magnitude of an earthquake depends on how far a rupture travels along a fault line before it stops. For the first time, we have now directly observed how a large earthquake comes to a halt. By ...

Earthquakes cause fault rupture, displacement of the ground, strong shaking, and tsunamis. These are all fairly well-understood phenomena. But there are other things associated with earthquakes that ...