"It's actually due to the weight of the island chain bending down the kind of rigid crust." ...

Texas’ strongest earthquake in history struck around 5:40 a.m. on Aug. 16, 1931. The magnitude 5.8 earthquake was centered ...

KERN COUNTY, CA - A preliminary 2.1 magnitude quake struck close to Johannesburg on Thursday afternoon, according to the U.S.

Scientists have confirmed that a mysterious Utah earthquake first detected in 1979 really did occur nearly 90 kilometers ...

An earthquake was felt in the Las Vegas Valley on Thursday afternoon. The Nevada Seismological Laboratory reported that the ...

Strong shaking was reported near the epicenter in South Kona, and the earthquake was felt widely across Hawaii Island, Maui ...

KERN COUNTY, CA - A preliminary 2.4 magnitude quake shook close to Johannesburg on Wednesday afternoon, the U.S. Geological ...

KERN COUNTY, CA - A preliminary 2.1 magnitude quake occurred close to Johannesburg around midnight Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

To see how a magnitude-9.0 earthquake would rattle the Pacific Northwest, researchers ran 50 virtual simulations on a supercomputer.

Researchers have identified a previously unknown type of earthquake that can begin as deep as 55 miles underground.

CUMBRIA may be thousands of miles from the world’s major fault lines, but the county has still felt the earth move – and new ...

USGS reports a 6.0 magnitude earthquake rocked Hawaii's Big Island Friday night near Hōnaunau-Nāpōʻopoʻo amid ongoing Kilauea volcano monitoring.