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For the first time, scientists of the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences have succeeded in setting up a harmonized catalogue of earthquakes for Europe and the Mediterranean for the last thousand years. 
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Mysterious small tremors in the most earthquake-prone areas on Earth may be the cause of surprisingly large tsunamis.
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Three years after a quake devastated L'Aquila, the Italian town has launched a bid to become a hi-tech European city -- to the scepticism of thousands of people still living in temporary housing.
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Geologists have a new tool to study how earthquakes change the landscape down to a few inches, and it's giving them insight into how earthquake faults behave. In the Feb.
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Greg Waite is studying the "mini-earthquakes" caused by small eruptions in order to unlock details about how all eruptions unfold.
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A groundbreaking study led by University of Miami (UM) scientist Shimon Wdowinski shows that earthquakes, including the recent 2010 temblors in Haiti and Taiwan, may be triggered by tropical cyclones (hurricanes and typhoons).
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Scientists believe they have a plausible explanation for Italian toads' apparent ability to sense the imminent earthquake that struck the city of L'Aquila on 6 April 2009. React to positive airborne ions, boffins explain
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This map of all the world's recorded earthquakes between 1898 and 2003 is stunning. As you might expect, it also creates a brilliant outline of the plates of the Earth's crust—especially the infamous "Ring of Fire" around the Pacific Plate.
The plate boundaries are amazingly vivid in this geovisualization of the all the earthquakes over a 105 year span. How did scientist orginally come up with the theory of plate tectonics? How did spatial thinking and mapping play a role in that scientific endeavor? Via Martin Daumiller
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At a magnitude of 8.6, yesterday's earthquake off the Indonesian province of Aceh was one of the largest ever recorded.Yet the massive tremor, which was followed by an 8.2-magnitude aftershock, did not cause a severe tsunami such as the one on December 26, 2004, which devastated countries around the Indian Ocean and killed more than 200,000.
So what is the difference?
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University of Manchester mathematicians have developed the theory for a Harry Potter style 'cloaking' device which could protect buildings from earthquakes.
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The earth provides early warning signs of impending earthquake say two groups of researchers who have been studying ozone emissions and a colony of toads...
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“Highly unlikely, but not outside the realm of extreme possibilities.”
Karley Krzciuk's curator insight,
April 6, 2014 9:54 PM
I found this article interesting because some places in the world do not have the technology to detect earth quakes and do not have time to take precautionary measures so since they found out that animals do detect earthquakes, they can use their knowledge to help save peoples lives. It is important to realize that if you know your animals behavior and they start to act suspicious, you should not just play it off like no big deal because it could be the difference between life and death. If they can sense an earth quake coming, maybe in the future they can detect other natural disasters or problems within the Earth. 
Joshua Edwin Behning's comment,
April 7, 2014 3:32 PM
I personal would say that when it comes to animals and detecting earthquakes sounds fair off, but i did hear that animals like horses can tell when a tornado is coming their way and I can believe that because animals have better senses than us.
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New research, published this week in the journal Applied Physics Letters, suggests that ozone gas emitted from fracturing rocks could serve as an indicator of impending earthquakes. Ozone is a natural gas, a byproduct of electrical discharges into the air from several sources, such as from lightning, or, according to the new research, from rocks breaking under pressure.
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