Most Americans think of earthquakes as a West Coast problem. California shakes, the news covers it, and everyone moves on. But seismologists have been quietly raising alarm bells about three fault ...

Scientists studying Northern California have uncovered previously hidden fault lines, raising alarms that seismic risk in the region may be underestimated. For decades, the Mendocino triple junction ...

The first earthquake struck while the town was still asleep. Around 2:00 am on Dec. 16, 1811, New Madrid—a small frontier settlement of 400 people on land now located in Missouri—was jolted awake.

An earthquake map from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) shows that minor earthquakes hit nine states on Friday morning. California is perhaps the state most known for earthquakes, as the Golden State ...

In July 2019, a 6.4-magnitude earthquake hit Ridgecrest, and a day later, a 7.1 quake hit the same region. The shaking was felt across Southern California, making it one of the largest quakes the ...

HONOLULU (Island News) -- A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck near the southern tip of South America in the Drake Passage on Friday morning, but officials say there is no tsunami threat to ...

In 1638, an earthquake in what is now New Hampshire had Plymouth, Massachusetts colonists stumbling from the strong shaking and water sloshing out of the pots used by Native Americans to cook a midday ...