When Texas Started Shaking More Than California In 2023, Texas and California were nearly tied for the number of magnitude 3 ...

On Wednesday morning (local time), an 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck just off the coast of eastern Russia. It was the sixth strongest earthquake on record! The great earthquake triggered tsunami ...

Each year, approximately 20,000 earthquakes occur globally. Even though most of these earthquakes are weak or occur in unpopulated areas, their destructive potential is clear. While richer nations ...

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.

The quakes come as California sees the effects of an atmospheric river that has caused flash flooding, rescues, and ...

The most recent, a 1.2-magnitude tremor, hit about 2 ½ miles northeast of San Ramon at 4:05 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 23. Getty Images/iStockphoto A swarm of small earthquakes has been rattling a Bay Area ...

The U.S. Geological Survey was still trying to unravel how an alert was sent Thursday morning for a nonexistent 5.9 earthquake outside Dayton, Nevada. A quake of that size wouldn't be implausible.

A swarm of at least a dozen earthquakes as strong as magnitude 3.9 rattled San Ramon near San Francisco, the U.S. Geological Survey reports. The other quakes in the Saturday swarm ranged from ...

Earthquakes in the American state of Utah, the Soultz-sous-Forêts region of France or in the Dutch province of Groningen should not be able to occur even if the subsurface has been exploited for ...