On Wednesday morning (local time), an 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck just off the coast of eastern Russia. It was the sixth strongest earthquake on record! The great earthquake triggered tsunami ...

That was not your imagination. Two earthquakes in less than a week have rattled more than the ground across North Jersey. Whenever an earthquake strikes, many may wonder what caused the earthquake and ...

There isn’t zero probability of earthquakes in the Rochester area, but it is much lower than in regions of the state with known faults, like southeastern New York and other coastal regions. There are ...

Each Yellowstone earthquake swarm is unique, lasting minutes to weeks and including a few to thousands of earthquakes that might or might not move around over time. With long-term investments in ...

— James Webb, Mineral Point, Wis. A Chuck DeMets, professor of geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: Most earthquakes occur when a geological fault, a fracture within the Earth’s crust, ...

Scientists are investigating the cause of recent regional earthquake activity that affected Kentucky over the weekend. A small 2.8 magnitude earthquake was recorded in Nicholasville in the early ...

The fault, which is part of the San Andreas Fault system, produced two 6.2-magnitude earthquakes last century.

CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CA - Monday night, a 3.3 magnitude quake was registered close to San Ramon, according to the U.S.

Why the ground shakes under Redding and Shasta County, and why it will keep shaking. Why Redding earthquakes may feel different from Eureka's in Humboldt County. Earthquakes that shake the ground ...