Nearly 75% of the country is at risk for a potentially damaging earthquake in the next 100 years, according to a recently updated map from the U.S. Geological Survey. The map is the first to include ...

Stanford University researchers have pulled back a curtain on a hidden part of Earth that rarely makes headlines. Their new ...

Minor earthquakes happen in and around New York more often than many people realize. This map shows where they've struck over ...

First global map of mantle earthquakes reveals seismic activity far beneath continents, challenging old ideas about Earth’s ...

Earthquakes occur several hundred times a day, every day, all over the globe. But most are only of a magnitude 2 or smaller, and rarely felt. It is only the notable earthquakes, usually of a magnitude ...

A rare earthquake stuck off the coast of Maine on Monday, causing people to report feeling shaking all throughout New England and into New York. A magnitude 3.8 earthquake was recorded at 10:22 a.m.

A minor, 3.8-magnitude earthquake struck in the San Francisco Bay Area on Monday, followed by a larger 4.2 magnitude ...

A research team studied earthquake hazard maps from five countries and found that all the maps seemed to overpredict the historically observed earthquake shaking intensities. In analyzing the possible ...

A new 3D subsurface model shows how variations in rock strength beneath the Marmara Sea could trigger future large earthquakes along the North Anatolian Fault. The findings improve understanding of ...