CARL JUNCTION, Mo. — Carl Junction students take part in an international drill aimed at dangers from below the earth’s surface. At 10:17 Thursday morning, these students at Carl Junction’s 2nd and ...

A 4.7 magnitude earthquake just struck Hawaii's Big Island on Thursday morning, and Japan has warned its citizens that a "megaquake" could strike within decades. But what does that mean, and what ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Southeast Missouri, home to the New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ), has produced some of the strongest earthquakes ever to rock North America. In 1811-1812, a series of major quakes ...

Researchers are applying artificial intelligence and other techniques in the quest to forecast quakes in time to help people find safety. In September 2017, about two minutes before a magnitude 8.2 ...

For more than 30 years, the models that researchers and government agencies use to forecast earthquake aftershocks have remained largely unchanged. While these older models work well with limited data ...