A Chinese spacecraft that burned up high over Los Angeles created a sonic trail detected by ground-based sensors.

Tel Aviv University scientists, who have been working for five years to pinpoint seismic noises created by human activity, ...

Caltech researchers introduce a new seismic technology called distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) to study earthquakes and ...

LSU's on-campus seismometers managed to detect an earthquake in California. It was not felt by people or animals here, only ...

Zhan's research has long focused on DAS, a method to transform fiber optic cables like those that provide high-speed internet ...

There are a number of ways to measure the magnitude of an earthquake. Most scales are based on the amplitude of seismic waves recorded on seismometers. These scales account for the distance between ...

These giant rocks could roll at any moment. The fact they haven't offers a window into the shaking of ancient Earth.

This story was originally published on MyNorthwest.com. Efforts to install additional seismometers around Glacier Peak have been delayed due to ground conditions and logistical issues. Glacier ...

Scientists led from University College London placed 50 seismometers on the Atlantic Ocean seafloor in the Azores-Madeira-Canary Islands region. Their aim was to record the signals from ...

The animation shows a network of North American seismometers lighting up as the ground waves from the quake pass over the continent — red means the station is moving up, blue means downward ...