Death by drowning was the biggest killer in the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami. Since the disaster, scientists have analyzed the massive Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, seeking better ways to ...

Earthquakes create ripple effects in Earth's upper atmosphere that can disrupt satellite communications and navigation systems we rely on. Nagoya University scientists and their collaborators have ...

Earthquakes are vibrations; we all know that. The little ones we get all the time in California occur in the form of high-frequency vibrations—sound—as much as the low-frequency vibrations we perceive ...