CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Since late 2020, the northeastern region of Japan’s Noto Peninsula has been shaken by a relentless barrage of earthquakes, occurring at an astonishing rate 10 times higher than the ...

A new study finds that heavy rain and snow may trigger earthquakes. Health Minister alerts public to Monkeypox case in South Africa The terrifying reality of just how close we really are to ...

When scientists look for an earthquake’s cause, their search often starts underground. As centuries of seismic studies have made clear, it’s the collision of tectonic plates and the movement of ...

Evan Bush is a science reporter for NBC News. He can be reached at Evan.Bush@nbcuni.com. A new theory suggests that heavy snowfall could be a factor in triggering swarms of earthquakes — evidence that ...

Sitting on top of four major tectonic plates, Japan is one of the countries most at risk of earthquakes. That fact was ...

A patch of heavy rain might force you to change your plans for a few days. But for the residents of a few Japanese districts, torrential showers have begun to shake up a little more than their ...