The strongest earthquake ever recorded in South Carolina - and on the East Coast of the United States - was a devastating 7.3 ...

SAN DIEGO (CNS) -- The shrinking and drying out of the Salton Sea has reduced stress on the San Andreas Fault, possibly reducing the frequency and severity of earthquakes in Southern California, ...

Earthquakes are natural phenomena caused by the sudden release of energy in the Earth’s crust, resulting in seismic waves. The magnitude of an earthquake is measured using the Richter scale, which ...

A 4.8 magnitude earthquake hit New Jersey and affected nearby states on Friday morning, leaving people on the East Coast and the ground trembling. The quake was reported around 10:23 a.m. about 5 ...

The National Tsunami Warning Center confirmed that “a tsunami is not expected following the quake”. Alaska’s Department of ...

Researchers re-created the conditions deep inside the Cascadia subduction zone and found that fractured rocks can repair ...