I keep checking the news to see updates on the aftermath of the magnitude 8.9 event off Japan's Honshu Island last night (or afternoon ...

A friend pointed out that there was a magnitude 8.8 thrust-fault earthquake, where the Nazca plate is subducting below the South American pl...

{image from Preliminary Earthquake Report U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center World Data Center for Seismology, D...