Japan is well known for its large earthquakes, but not all regions show the same patterns of earthquake activity. One way to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Did you feel it? A 3.8 magnitude earthquake off York Harbor, Maine, shook Seacoast New Hampshire, southern Maine and much of New ...

On Friday 23 August, a magnitude 4.8 earthquake near Muswellbrook, New South Wales, shook the state. The earthquake caused local damage and Geoscience Australia received more than 3,600 felt reports, ...

Geologists show how the earthquake's rupture direction may have affected who felt the strongest shaking on 5 April. The magnitude 4.8 Tewksbury earthquake surprised millions of people on the U.S. East ...

Guerrero, Mexico is an active site with several recent major earthquakes, but also a small area called the ‘Guerrero seismic gap’ (pictured) where no earthquakes have occurred for more than a century.

A period of slow, creeping movement without any shaking may be a necessary prelude to earthquakes, a new study suggests. The research, which was on the fundamentals of how materials rupture, focused ...

An earthquake doesn’t have to cause major damage to serve as a reminder to be prepared. The state has been working to maximize the “MyShake” alert system to ensure people closest to the danger zone ...

Just days after powerful earthquakes devastated parts of Venezuela, residents of Caracas looked up to witness another ...

ABC News - PHOTO: Philip Liu examines the speed of alerts following the 8.8 magnitude earthquake off Russia's coast. When a magnitude 8.8 earthquake rocked Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on Tuesday, ...

The magnitude 4.8 Tewksbury earthquake surprised millions of people on the U.S. East Coast who felt the shaking from this largest instrumentally recorded earthquake in New Jersey since 1900. But ...