On 2/12/2008 12:50:02 PM UTC an earthquake of magnitude 6.5 has struck the highly populated region of Oaxaca, Mexico in Mexico.

One of the world’s most vulnerable areas for earthquakes lies in a region important for Palestinians, Jordanians, and Israelis, around the ancient city of Jericho. A serious earthquake could add to the volatile situation in the Middle East.

Africa and Europe get about 4 mm closer every year in a northeast convergence direction. The exact position and geometry of the boundary between the African and Eurasian plates is unknown, but it is located near the Gibraltar Arc — an area of intense seismic activity which was not studied deeply until now.

Using a novel device that simulates earthquakes in a laboratory setting, a Los Alamos researcher and his colleagues have shown that seismic waves—the sounds radiated from earthquakes—can induce earthquake aftershocks, often long after a quake has subsided.

Like geological ninjas, earthquakes can strike without warning. But there may be a way to detect the footfalls of large earthquakes before they strike, alerting their potential victims a week or more in advance. A Stanford professor thinks a method to provide just such warnings may have been buried in the scientific literature for over 40 years.

A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 has hit the Solomon Islands, but there have been no reports of damage and a destructive Pacific-wide tsunami was not expected, seismologists said.

At least three people have been killed and 45 injured in an earthquake in eastern Indonesia, the head of the republic's emergencies center said on Monday.

Earth tremors not linked to volcanic activity first turned up in seismic observations several years ago, but those tremors were almost exclusively in subduction zones such as the Cascadia region off the coast of the Pacific Northwest.

For more than a decade geoscientists have detected what amount to ultra-slow-motion earthquakes under Western Washington and British Columbia on a regular basis, about every 14 months.

On Monday, 19.11.2007, a team of scientists from the "German Earthquake Task Force" will travel to the earthquake-affected area of Northern Chile. The seismologists, from the GFZ Potsdam (an institute of the Helmholtz Association), will be monitoring aftershocks and mapping the resulting surface deformation.

A strong magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck southern New Zealand early local time, but police in the region said there were no immediate reports of injury or damage.

Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment (NanTroSEIZE) gets underway, with the Japanese drilling vessel Chikyu departing from Shingu Port with scientists aboard, all ready to log, drill, sample, and install monitoring instrumentation in one of the most active earthquake zones on Earth.