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.

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 ...

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

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

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

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

New research links the formation of gold nuggets to the seismic forces generated by earthquakes, revealing quartz's role in their creation.

When a 4.4-magnitude earthquake rattled Los Angeles on Aug.13, it didn’t come as a complete surprise to everybody. About a million Californians got an early alert on their phones that a quake ...

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

Thousands of anti-war protesters clashed with police Wednesday outside a military arms convention in downtown Melbourne. Around 1,800 police officers have been deployed ...

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