A swarm of more than 1,350 earthquakes shook Mount Rainier this summer. USGS scientists took a closer look. Here’s what they ...

NYE COUNTY, NV - According to the U.S. Geological Survey, a preliminary 2.1 magnitude quake occurred near Goldfield at midday ...

SONOMA COUNTY, CA - the U.S. Geological Survey reported that a preliminary 2.4 magnitude quake occurred near The Geysers ...

The Atlantic coastline is vulnerable to tsunamis triggered by earthquakes and landslides across the ocean basin ...

Large earthquakes along some of New Zealand's major faults are commonly clustered in time and place, according to recent research.

For the first time, scientists watched sandstone deform from the inside out, grain by grain, revealing insights that could ...

Scientists detect unusually deep earthquakes beneath the Mid-Atlantic Ridge seafloor, finding CO2 present there in magma.

Axial is the world’s most extensively studied undersea volcano because more than 660 miles of undersea cables crisscross it, ...

A chance video captured a fault rupture during March’s devastating Myanmar earthquake, delivering real-time evidence of how major seismic tremors propagate.

A third earthquake has been reported in Greenwood County, South Carolina. The most recent quake happened about 7:55 p.m. Wednesday and had a magnitude of 1.6. This is in the same area as quakes ...

San Diego County homeowners now have a rare opportunity to act. Now through Oct. 1, the Earthquake Brace + Bolt program, administered by the California Residential Mitigation Program, is accepting ...

Two minor earthquakes struck Gujarat's Kutch district within seven minutes on Thursday night, causing a brief alarm but no ...