Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The shaking produced by an earthquake can crack the ground, bring down buildings and cause massive rockfalls. All this destructive ...

The ground-shaking that an earthquake generates is only a fraction of the total energy that a quake releases. A quake can also generate a flash of heat, along with a domino-like fracturing of ...

Sediment cores drawn from four lakes in Guatemala record the distinct direction that ground shaking traveled during a 1976 magnitude 7.5 earthquake that devastated the country, according to ...

Oasis's 2009 performance at Edinburgh's Murrayfield Stadium has been identified as the most "ground-shaking" concert at the venue in the past two decades, according to new seismic data analysis. The ...