Despite the sporadic nature of seismic activity in Australia, the country’s long history of minimal earthquakes has led to a ...

Victoria has been hit by its third earthquake this month, with a city in the states southwest hit early on Thursday morning.

The strain imparted by an earthquake can generate voltages in quartz veins that stimulate the mineralization of gold.

A magnitude three earthquake hit Gippsland on Monday night, with the epicentre at Sandy Point near Wilsons Promontory.

Victoria has been rocked by a second earthquake in a week. The magnitude 3.4 earthquake was recorded at Hamilton, in the ...

The piezoelectric effect has been known since the 1880s. It is essentially the ability of a material to generate an electric ...

New South Wales has been hit by another earthquake, three weeks after the same area felt a 4.8 magnitude quake. Seniors are being urged to take advantage of easy and simple tools to preserve their ...

Researchers have uncovered that large gold nuggets formation is linked to seismic events, due to electric fields generated by ...

Quartz is what is called a piezoelectric material. There aren’t many minerals like this on Earth, and quartz is by far the ...

A pair of modest earthquakes rattled Southern California on Saturday morning, with epicenters in Ontario. The earthquakes, of magnitudes 3.5 and 3.9, occurred within about a half hour of each other.

The second year of the Melbourne festival delivered talent and creativity in spades – leaving me disrupted, enlivened and ...

Ancient gold mining practices reveal a strong connection between quartz and gold formations. Recent studies suggest ...