Human activity can cause “healed” faults to release their stored strength, triggering unexpected quakes in tectonically stable regions.

Magma seeping into a reservoir under the island of Santorini set off thousands of quakes, some of which almost reached a 5.0 ...

The "swarm" of tens of thousands of earthquakes near the Greek island of Santorini earlier this year was triggered by molten ...

There isn’t zero probability of earthquakes in the Rochester area, but it is much lower than in regions of the state with ...

TULARE COUNTY, CA - Wednesday afternoon, a preliminary 2.6 magnitude quake was registered near Olancha, according to the U.S.

A swarm of small earthquakes has been rattling a Bay Area city for more than a week in Northern California. More than 90 ...

FRESNO COUNTY, CA - the U.S. Geological Survey reported that a preliminary 2.7 magnitude quake shook near Toms Place ...

Global distribution of natural and induced seismicity. Natural earthquakes with moment magnitude higher than 5 are color-coded according to their hypocenter depth (upper right colorbar, U.S.

According to USGS data, the seven earthquakes occurred over a span of two days and were centered near the city of Santa Rosa in Sonoma County. Preliminary readings placed the epicenters predominantly ...

A. 2.2-magnitude earthquake shook just north of Wayne County, in Lake Ontario, on Wednesday night. The earthquake hit around ...

Some reports of shaking came in from as far away as 40 miles from the epicenter, according to the federal agency that tracks ...