A magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck 77 km south of Gorontalo, Indonesia, on June 4, 2026, registering as the strongest seismic event the U.S. Geological Survey recorded anywhere on Earth in the preceding 24 hours.

Magnitude 4.1 earthquake hits near Las Vegas, USGS says after shallow tremor in Summerlin South.

Earthquakes and seismic activity often happen with sudden movements underground with tectonic plates. Seismographs are used by scientists to measure the time, location and strength of an earthquake. Magnitude illustrates the strength of an earthquake ...

What does “moment magnitude” mean, and how do scientists determine the strength of a rupture in the earth? By Henry Fountain Henry Fountain spent a quarter century covering science for The Times. He retired in 2023. Seismologists register the intensity ...

An earthquake of magnitude 5 struck Southern Iran on Friday evening, according to the National Seismic Network of the National Centre of Meteorology (NCM). The quake struck at 7.38pm UAE time at a depth of 10km.

THE destructive power of earthquakes is measured in different ways, but the one most people have heard of is the Richter scale. Here’s how the force is calculated – and what it means if you are caught up in a disaster like the Lombok quake that killed ...

Residents across Hawaiʻi Island felt the ground shake at 5:58 p.m. HST on June 2, 2026, when a magnitude-4.6 earthquake struck roughly 4 miles west-northwest of Kahaluu-Keauhou at a depth of 34 km (21 mi).