A megathrust earthquake is coming for the Pacific Northwest. But new imaging of undersea faults and fractures has given ...

A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck Kyushu, Japan, according to the German Research Centre for Geosciences. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 122 km (75.81 miles). The event underlines the seismic ...

A magnitude-5. 5 earthquake shook the Turkish province of Tokat in the north of the country during the night, the disaster ...

Earthquakes are among the most formidable natural disasters, striking with little warning and causing widespread devastation. Certain regions around the globe are particularly susceptible to seismic ...

Four earthquakes up to magnitude 4.0 shook Louisiana, raising questions about hidden faults, seismic risks, and the region’s rarely studied geology.

As the name suggests, an earthquake is an event that causes the earth to shake. In some cases, an earthquake can be so significant that it cracks open the ground, as well as human-made structures such ...

Northwest Louisiana recently experienced a significant earthquake, but just how commons are earthquakes? Movement along ...

Here's what to know about the NY quake that hit Tuesday morning.

We tend to think earthquakes are predominantly driven by deep-Earth forces. But in Kenya’s Lake Turkana Rift, researchers recently found that as surface water levels dropped roughly 100 to 150 meters ...

— 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, ...

The largest earthquake in New York state history occurred on Sept. 5, 1944, near Massena in St. Lawrence County. The ...