A tectonic earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 shook the southern region of Gunungkidul, Special Region of Yogyakarta.

The SH waveforms recorded on the Göttingen and Uppsala seismograms suggest that the 1907 earthquake is a thrust earthquake at a shallow depth around 30 km. The most likely scenario is that the 1907 ...

The Chilean quake was a thrust earthquake, which occurs when a large section of the Earth's surface, in this case, the Nasca tectonic plate, dives beneath an adjacent plate. The fifth largest ...

While neither caused any major damage, experts have warned that Monday's quake may have been associated with the Puente Hills thrust fault, which could one day cause a huge earthquake in Los Angeles.

Preliminary and updated seismological solutions are considered in elucidating the effects of improving earthquake parameters on polar motion. The large Sumatra thrust earthquake was particularly ...

The Earthquake Research Committee said it has ... It concerns what is known as a subduction mega thrust quake along the Nankai Trough, an 800km undersea gully running parallel to Japan’s Pacific ...

Recent subduction zone cataclysms like the 2011 Tōhoku, Japan, and 2004 Indian Ocean disasters show how it can be suddenly and violently released in “mega-thrust” earthquakes. It’s a ...

which help dictate the size of a megathrust earthquake. The new model, which simulates movements along a 4,040 × 660-square-kilometer thrust fault area, predicts plate movement of around 5 ...

Geologists don't have a crystal ball that can foresee future earthquakes, but seismic specialists in the Japanese government believe that the odds of a big one are creeping upwards. According to ...

BMKG recorded a tectonic earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 in Liloan, Panaon Island, Philippines, Thursday, .