As the name implies, these larger waves can sneak up on unsuspecting beachgoers since they randomly occur amid smaller waves ...

Powerful earthquakes rocked Myanmar, shaking Bangkok and toppling a high-rise. With tsunami fears looming, how do quakes ...

That sudden breaking of the foam rubber is the earthquake. That's what happens along a strike-slip fault. Seismic waves can also be caused by natural processes other than earthquakes and by human ...

It travels as a transverse wave. Unlike a sound waves, light waves do not need a medium to pass through, they can travel through a vacuum. Light from the Sun reaches Earth through the vacuum of space.

Most scales are based on the amplitude of seismic waves recorded ... that occur each year. Another way to measure the strength of an earthquake is to use the observations of the people who experienced ...

The unusually warm waters and dramatic fisheries changes associated with these events raise questions about how and why these marine heat waves occur, as well as what the implications are for ...