Glacier ice flows by means of many different mechanisms, explains Kristin Poinar, a University at Buffalo scientist who studies the Greenland Ice Sheet. "It can ooze slowly and viscously; it can ...

A new study links climate change-induced glacier melt in the Alps to a surge in minor earthquakes, warning that seismic risk ...

Thousands of earthquakes occurring in rapid succession in less than a year under an Antarctic glacier may have been linked to ocean tides, new research suggests. IE 11 is not supported.

Unlike tectonic quakes that result from shear forces, icequakes are “crack source” events—pure, directional fractures opening in glacial ice.Fiber optics, typically associated with ...

At least two earthquakes centered 89 miles northwest of Juneau on Friday night were felt by residents in town, although there were no immediate reports of significant damage or injuries.

Locations of 59 earthquakes since 1900 that intersect glacier lakes in the Peruvian and Bolivian Andes, South America. Circle colors pertain to earthquake magnitude while size is the critical ...

“A lot of the earthquakes that you are seeing right now are those little tiny glacier quakes,” Caplan-Auerbach said in an interview. “These are associated in some way with the glaciers.

“A lot of the earthquakes that you are seeing right now are those little tiny glacier quakes,” Caplan-Auerbach said in an interview.

More than 130 earthquakes were registered Tuesday at Iceland's large Bardarbunga volcano, a possible precursor to an eruption among the several scenarios being considered, the Icelandic ...

Recently, an international team of scientists led by Andreas Fichtner of the ETH Zürich, a public research university in Zürich, Switzerland, discovered many little ice quakes deep within the ice ...