When a magnitude-7.0 earthquake hit Haiti in 2010 and killed an estimated 200,000 people, there was only one working seismometer in the country. The shaking quickly overwhelmed the seismometer, an ...

Here's how Mini seismometers in Android phones act as a network of sensors to notify residents of an earthquake, giving them time to prepare. Written by Jada Jones, Editor Oct. 27, 2022, 12:39 p.m. PT ...

LIMA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- A seismometer housed at Penn State Brandywine in Lima recorded the earthquake that rattled the Northeast on Friday. "It's exciting for me," said Professor Laura Guertin.

Now, 55 years after the Apollo 11 seismometer recorded Armstrong’s run, scientists are still learning more about the moon from seismic data collected between 1969 and 1977.

The seismometer station was installed over the winter break in time to record to the Jan. 6 double temblor: a magnitude 4.3 quake in Fairview at 10:30 p.m., and then a magnitude 4.8 near Alva less ...