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

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 ...

Thousands of anti-war protesters have clashed with police outside a military arms convention in downtown Melbourne.

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

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

Another earthquake has rocked NSW’s Hunter Region, with people living across the state reporting being woken by rocking beds.

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

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

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

AND THEY HAVE JUST CONFIRMED THAT THERE WAS A WEAK EARTHQUAKE, A MINOR EARTHQUAKE 2.5 ON THE RICHTER SCALE. EIGHT KILOMETERS WEST SOUTHWEST OF PARADISE HILLS. SO IF YOU THOUGHT THE GROUND WAS Two ...

Now, a new study published today in Nature Geoscience has come up with a convincing, and surprising, answer: electricity, and earthquakes—lots of them. Those nuggets owe their existence to the ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A 4.4-magnitude earthquake struck Los Angeles County Monday morning, centered in Highland Park according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake struck around 12:20 p.m. at ...