Tsunamis are notoriously difficult to spot on the open ocean as they race towards shore. But in the summer of 2025, scientists watched one unfold as it happened.
As well as being cheap, bamboo appears to have remarkable qualities of seismic resistance. Now it's being used to try to protect people from earthquakes.
Fifty years since the first mobile phone call, the technology we carry around in our pocket is helping to create the world's biggest earthquake detection system.
After 800 years, volcanism has returned to Reykjanes, Iceland. Watching from Reykjavík, writer Andri Snaer Magnason reflects on the complex Icelandic relationship with volcanoes.
The cacophony of seismic activity that ripped a 4km-long fissure in the Reykjanes peninsula has been turned into audible clips.
In the aftermath of the Turkey-Syria earthquake, scientists are stepping up their search for the early warning signs of these unpredictable of natural disasters.
For millennia, people across the globe have reported alarmed animal behaviour in the run-up to natural disasters. Could these signals be used to warn us of impending catastrophes?
Villagers in north-east Croatia feared their homes might be swallowed when almost 100 enormous sinkholes appeared in a month.
Like adobe, superadobe is earth-based, economical and keeps houses cool in the day. But it’s also earthquake resistant. Could this twist on a tradition save lives around the world?
