N​early 75% of the country is at risk for a potentially damaging earthquake, according to a recently updated USGS map.

The Great Rift in East Africa is one of the few spots on Earth being actively separated by tectonic activity and will ...

Seismologist posits that the Summerville 'ghost light' is linked to “earthquake lights”—a rare and poorly understood phenomenon.

A lurch in the Earth’s tectonic plates can wreak havoc at any time – as we’ve just seen in Vanuatu. How do scientists measure ...

The quake hit at 12:17 a.m. (1600 GMT Monday), with its epicenter 12 kilometers (7 miles) north of Yujing at a preliminary depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles), USGS said. Taiwan’s Central Weather ...

The 2.8 magnitude earthquake occurred at about 5:30 p.m. local time on Tuesday, with shaking felt across Virginia and beyond.

Los Angeles and the Southern California ... to be on guard for an earthquake? No. Earthquakes cannot be predicted on any sort of scale, regardless of historical context. Community notes added to the ...

A strong earthquake struck southwestern Japan, the U.S. Geological Survey said, prompting authorities to issue a tsunami ...

Los Angeles and the Southern California area have been ravaged by fires fueled by swift winds over the past week. The deadly ...

12. Getty Images/iStockphoto A 3.7-magnitude earthquake shook the San Francisco Bay Area in California, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The 7-mile deep quake hit about a mile from Pleasant ...