Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has rattled southern Texas in the vicinity of San Antonio, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) ...

This is the fourth eartquake to hit California with others felt across the region including shaking in San Bernardino, ...

A magnitude 4.5 earthquake rocked southern Texas Wednesday night, striking nearly 45 miles southwest of the city of San Antonio. The US Geological Survey (USGS) detected the seismic event at 9 ...

Standing in his living room, Richard Kabzems brandishes a thick binder stuffed with letters and notes of his two-year fight to stop fracking wells near his home in Farmington, B.C.

A third earthquake has rocked San Bernardino after the area was hit by two others earlier, raising fears of a serious seismic incident on the San Andreas fault. The US Geological Survey reported the ...

If the process hits a fault, it can cause seismic activity ... the water storage is causing most of the induced-earthquakes in Texas. "If we have another big one, especially near an urban centre ...

“Landman” is also based on Texas Monthly’s 11-part 2019 ... where water and pressure can interact with faults and trigger earthquakes. Yet this practice existed before fracking, she said ...

Earthquakes have been recorded in almost every part of the state, but there are clusters where they are more common, particularly in West Texas. The region has the most fault zones in the state ...

identifying natural seismic activity caused by the earthquake. Using publicly available data from seismic monitoring stations ...