Today marks the 25th anniversary of the powerful Nisqually earthquake, a magnitude 6.8 temblor that shook Western Washington and left lasting changes in how the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aerial view of the devastated along the north eastern coast of Japan following a massive earthquake and tsunami March 25, 2011.

Monday's magnitude 5.2 temblor marked another success for California's earthquake early warning system, with users in some areas saying they received alerts on their phones before they felt shaking.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Treeline Global, a California-based intelligence and planetary design firm, has formally confirmed that its Terranis seismic system detected early-stage ...

SEATTLE — Technology that detects strong earthquakes and alerts residents to their shaking got renewed attention after an earthquake struck near Orcas Island on Monday morning. The magnitude 4.5 ...

SEATTLE, Wash. — The entire West Coast now has access to ShakeAlert, an earthquake early warning system that allows messages to be sent to mobile phones once there’s a tremor. The system debuted in ...

Google is expanding its earthquake alert system to Wear OS smartwatches, bringing life-saving early warnings directly to users’ wrists. Using data from millions of Android devices, the system detects ...

Google’s Android Earthquake Alerts system crowdsources data from smartphone accelerometers to detect seismic activity. The system has detected over 18,000 earthquakes and alerted millions across ...

A visible shape-metal alloy seismic system keeps the building plumb, and makes it a teaching tool for earthquake-resilient ...