Climate journalist Emma Pattee has been worried about the so-called big one—an off-the-charts earthquake—hitting her town in Portland, Ore., for some time now. She’s not alone: scientists estimate at ...

Earthquakes are some of nature’s most destructive forces, but what if we could better predict where they might strike? A new global stress map, based on more than 100,000 measurements, reveals areas ...

Hoboken, N.J., December 8, 2025 — On Saturday December 6, 2025 Alaska was rocked by a 7.0 magnitude quake. Though not always so forceful, earthquakes happen every day. On average, about 55 of them ...

What if the most telling indications of an impending volcanic eruption are buried deep under the ocean, or in a fleeting succession of tiny quakes that no one perceives? As volcanoes of the Pacific ...

For years, Charlotte Pearson and her colleagues at the University of Arizona Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research have used tree‐ring science to travel back in time, hoping that clues from the past will ...