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Seismology

The treatment tanks at the SRE salt water disposal well.

Earthquakes from underground water injection can occur many miles away

Energy companies frequently inject wastewater deep underground to avoid polluting drinking water sources. This process is responsible for a surge of earthquakes in Oklahoma and other regions.

Scientists on trial for not warning about earthquake

Environment
An injured woman walks toward a hospital soon after an earthquake struck Sankhu, Nepal, on May 12, 2015. The 7.3-magnitude quake killed more than two dozen people in Nepal and neighboring states.

Dozens more die after another major quake hits Nepal

Development
A Nepalese army personnel stands in front of a collapsed temple in Bhaktapur, Nepal a day after the April 25 earthquake rocked the country. The quake devastated the heavily crowded Kathmandu valley, killing thousands and triggering a deadly avalanche on M

Earthquakes create as well as destroy

Environment
A woman carries her belongings as she walks over a collapsed house in Bhaktapur, Nepal, on April 27, 2015.

Nepal’s quake preparations not enough, despite 20 years of warnings

Science
Emergency workers inspect the earthquake damaged buildings in L'Aquila Italy in April, 2009.

An Italian appeals court overturns the convictions of six scientists accused of not warning people about an earthquake

Justice

An Italian appeals court has tossed out most of the convictions in the case involving earthquake scientists and a public official in L’Aquila, Italy. They had earlier been found guilty of failing to warn the public about risks right before a deadly quake hit, killing more than 300 people.

Chile earthquake

Was it luck or preparedness? What explains the low death toll in Chile’s earthquake?

Environment

The town of Iquique in Chile was the epicenter of an 8.2 magnitude earthquake on Tuesday night. But given the magnitude of the quake, the death toll announced so far is minor.The town of Iquique in Chile was the epicenter of an 8.2 magnitude earthquake on Tuesday night. But given the magnitude of the quake, the death toll announced so far is minor.

Fears increase of big earthquake near Tokyo in the foreseeable future

A prominent Japanese seismologist rattled some nerves when he declared there was a 70 percent chance of a major earthquake in or around Tokyo — in the next four years. Government scientists had proclaimed a similar risk, but over a longer timeframe, 30 years.

Dozens killed in Turkish earthquake (with video)

A magnitude 7.2 earthquake was reported near the Turkish-Iranian border Sunday afternoon Turkish time. The death toll is expected to rise into the hundreds or thousands.

Japan’s earthquake-resistant buildings

Environment

The reason why more buildings didn’t collapse in Japan’s earthquake is because engineers prepared them to bend, but not break.