An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.5 rattled the L.A. metropolitan area early Saturday just hours after a 3.8-magnitude quake shook the Malibu area shortly before midnight Friday.

Scientists have detected several thousand earthquakes, the vast majority of them with small magnitudes, in just over two ...

When it does, it releases energy in a burst, which causes the shaking of an earthquake. Earthquakes happen most often where tectonic plates meet. Tectonic plates are pieces of crust that fit ...

Rescuers spent nearly 12 hours in extreme weather and rugged terrain to save a hiker at Andrew Molera State Park in Monterey ...

After a pair of small earthquakes shook San Bernardino on Monday morning, the city was jolted by another earthquake just before 10 p.m., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It was the second ...

A powerful 7.6 magnitude earthquake in the Caribbean Sea Saturday night, north of Honduras and southwest of the Cayman Islands, briefly triggered tsunami alerts that were later lifted. The U.S ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A Tsunami Advisory was in effect for Puerto Rico and nearby islands for part of Saturday evening after a powerful earthquake struck between Honduras and the Cayman Islands ...

You've probably heard of lake-effect snow. But unlike large snow cannons at ski areas, there is another way of generating ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.6 occurred on Saturday in the Caribbean Sea, according to the US Geological Survey, sparking a tsunami advisory. The tremor hit 129 miles southwest of ...

But after another week of near-constant earthquakes, the island has taken on an unusual quiet. At least 13,000 of the island’s 15,500 residents, unnerved by the frequent shaking, have left in ...

The earthquake resulted in the scrapping of some semiconductor wafers, but there was no structural damage to its chip production facilities and normal operations have resumed, it said. The company ...