To see how a magnitude-9.0 earthquake would rattle the Pacific Northwest, researchers ran 50 virtual simulations on a ...

A 2.9-magnitude earthquake shook the tri-county on Feb. 7, followed by other small quakes across South Carolina in recent ...

Stanford University researchers have pulled back a curtain on a hidden part of Earth that rarely makes headlines. Their new work maps a strange kind of earthquake that starts deep below the crust, ...

Stanford researchers have created the first-ever global map of a rare earthquake type that occurs not in Earth's crust but in ...

San Ramon, Calif., has been rattled by dozens of small earthquakes in recent months. Even in a region used to regular shaking, it’s been a lot.

The largest of the 19 earthquakes measured by the U.S. Geological Survey was a magnitude 4.2 shaker that was centered about ...

With some luck, specialized equipment, a supervolcano and a narrow hole 30 stories deep, researchers demonstrated that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck off the Oregon Coast on Jan. 15. The earthquake was detected around 7:25 p.m., approximately 183 ...

Insured damage estimates for quakes in Vancouver and Montreal could be much higher than industry estimates suggest.

Devastating earthquakes happen every year, and it's difficult to predict when they will happen. But they do follow one ...

A 4.2 magnitude earthquake struck near Great Falls on Thursday, briefly rattling residents and raising questions about why earthquakes occur in the region.

Overnight on Jan. 26, many people online reported hearing loud booms, mistakenly assuming they were tremors or earthquakes ...