S. population is "somewhat likely" to experience a damaging earthquake in the coming decades, according to recently published ...

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.

American Samoa is a United States territory which comprises the easternmost islands of a volcanic island chain formed by the Samoan hotspot in the South Pacific Ocean. Its small islands are the tops ...

Global distribution of natural and induced seismicity. Natural earthquakes with moment magnitude higher than 5 are color-coded according to their hypocenter depth (upper right colorbar, U.S.

In the photo above, a seismometer is buried about five feet underground. The seismometer is one of the units deployed by the Iowa Geological Survey so it could measure seismicity — or the frequency of ...

Climate journalist Emma Pattee has been worried about the so-called big one—an off-the-charts earthquake—hitting her town in Portland, Ore., for some time now. She’s not alone: scientists estimate at ...

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck southcentral Alaska on Wednesday, Nov. 27 at 8:11 a.m. Alaska Standard Time, occurring 26 miles southwest of Willow. The tremor registered at a depth of 42.8 miles, ...

Over the past few days, the Coachella Valley has experienced more than 20 earthquakes, causing concern among some residents. The magnitude 4.9 quake reported about 12 miles north of Indio the evening ...