Researchers are deliberately setting off real (small) earthquakes to understand how to gauge the danger of a fault line ...

One of the most dangerous faults in the United States, the Cascadia Subduction Zone, may be able to trigger an earthquake on ...

Texas’ strongest earthquake in history struck around 5:40 a.m. on Aug. 16, 1931. The magnitude 5.8 earthquake was centered ...

A magnitude 2.7 earthquake rattled parts of central Oklahoma late Tuesday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

This color-coded earthquake risk map can help you determine your chances of feeling seismic activity in your area.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Statues of Rosa Parks and Helen Keller were unveiled Friday on the grounds of the Alabama Capitol. The monuments honoring the Alabama natives whose advocacy helped dismantle racial ...

A massive crater hidden beneath the Atlantic seafloor has been confirmed as the result of an asteroid strike from 66 million ...

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Los Angeles County officials dismissed their recent after-action report on the January wildfires as "inadequate." For me, the McChrystal Report is a precise, comprehensive account of failure, ...

An earthquake of magnitude 3.6 struck Pakistan on Saturday, a statement by the National Center for Seismology (NCS) said. As per a statement by the NCS, the earthquake occurred at a depth of 160km. In ...

Once considered geologically impossible, earthquakes in stable regions like Utah and Groningen can actually occur due to long-inactive faults that slowly “heal” and strengthen over millions of years.

A UCLA-led team of scientists has uncovered how the devastating magnitude 7.7 earthquake that struck Myanmar in March 2025 ...