2021 was notable for the Western Hemisphere. The largest quake of the year was in Alaska and the deadliest was in Haiti. There were a few surprises and, sadly, reaffirmation of what we have known for ...

COLUMBIA — The 3.3 magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks that rumbled the Midlands the last week of December upped the tally of earthquakes recorded in the Palmetto State to 30 in 2021, the most in ...

The Yellowstone region was hit by around 1,000 more earthquakes in 2021 compared to the previous year, according to a new report. This week, the United States Geological Survey's (USGS) Yellowstone ...

A 47 km-deep, magnitude 7.5 earthquake that struck the south Atlantic in 2021 and caused a global tsunami was actually a sequence of five earthquakes. A shallow, “almost invisible” magnitude 8.2 quake ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - South Carolina is closing out an above-average year with respect to earthquakes. The U.S. Geological Survey confirmed four earthquakes Monday in the Midlands, centered in ...

A jar holding waste water from hydraulic fracturing is held up to the light at a recycling site in Midland, Texas. Photo: Pat Sullivan (AP) Everything is bigger in Texas—including, increasingly, its ...

Trapped inside the shoreline of a bay, the resonant interactions of a tsunami with regular waves can prolong the tsunami disturbance. For the 2021 magnitude 7 Acapulco, Mexico earthquake and tsunami, ...