Professor Dean Whitman, of the Department of Earth and Environment, studies earthquakes. He answers questions about the geophysics of the destructive event.

For those trapped in rubble after an earthquake, survival depends on many factors, including weather and access to water and ...

The event, according to the US Geological Survey, was a rare phenomenon called a "doublet" that contained not one but two ...

On Wednesday evening, Venezuela was hit with its largest tremors in more than a century — toppling buildings and claiming ...

Many earthquakes in Venezuela are "shallow-focus," meaning they occur less than 15 to 20 kilometres below the ground.

Venezuela was hit by a rare doublet earthquake on Wednesday, with a magnitude 7.2 quake followed just 39 seconds later by a ...

Many Venezuelans were at home when the quakes struck during a public holiday marking an 1821 military victory that helped ...

Venezuela on Wednesday experienced something seismologists rarely observe: two massive earthquakes separated by just 39 ...

Earthquakes are pretty common in Afghanistan due to its placement on an active tectonic collision zone. However, what levaes ...

Maine typically experiences several noticeable earthquakes every year, but the first of 2025 is one of the most powerful to hit the state in the past 30 years.The U.S. Geological Survey said at 10:22 ...

Venezuela and its capital, Caracas, were rocked by two massive earthquake pulses on June 24, 2026, just seconds apart. The shaking from the magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 events caused buildings to collapse in ...