A seismograph is an instrument used by scientists to measure the motions of the Earth's surface. A seismograph is a simple pendulum. When the ground shakes, the base and frame of the instrument move ...

While New Hampshire may not be known for earthquakes, the town of Merrimack is now host to the Granite State’s first seismograph available for public use. Library Director Yvette Couser got her ...

A quaking planet means wobbly picturesESO/A Klotz (TAROT) Editor at Large Scientists have gotten awfully good at the business of seismography. At any moment, the Global Seismograph Network (GSM), a ...

Earth's tectonic plates are in constant motion and, because the plates are not all moving in the same direction, the boundaries where they meet are often violent places. Boundaries where two plates ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) — An 8.2 magnitude earthquake rumbled off the coast of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska at around 2:15 a.m. EST Thursday, which was 10:15 p.m. Wednesday in Alaska. This earthquake ...

AMBLER, Pa. (CBS) -- A machine operated by Temple University to measure earthquakes and other seismic events is being reinstalled after it ran afoul of another (and much more common) natural ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Did you feel your house shake Friday morning? You weren't imagining it. Around 10:25 a.m. on Friday, an earthquake strong enough ...

Mike Darnay is a digital producer and photojournalist at CBS Pittsburgh. Mike has also written and produced content for Vox Media and the Mon Valley Independent. He often covers overnight breaking ...

Twitter is quickly becoming the lens into all that moves us as individuals and also as a global society. Twitter has become a human seismograph, measuring and broadcasting the pulse of not just the ...

The 6.4-magnitude earthquake that struck near Ridgecrest on July 4 was picked up by a seismograph in the San Francisco Bay Area, according to a tweet from the National Weather Service's Bay Area ...

Using different colors of paint and a map of Christchurch, this machine lays down beautiful portraits of New Zealand’s deadly earthquakes. Photo: James Boock New Zealand is one of the world’s foremost ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — UteQuake is making a comeback at Rice-Eccles Stadium as the University of Utah faces off against UCLA on Saturday. A special device, set up by the University's Seismograph ...