A security camera captured the moment a 4.9 earthquake rattled parts of North Louisiana Thursday. The United States ...

A light, 4.9-magnitude earthquake struck in Louisiana on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 5:30 a.m. Central time about 6 miles west of Edgefield, La.

South Carolina community hit with a 3.0 magnitude earthquake. How often do earthquakes occur in the Palmetto State?

Scientists at Stanford have unveiled the first-ever global map of rare earthquakes that rumble deep within Earth’s mantle rather than its crust. Long debated and notoriously difficult to confirm, ...

A magnitude 4.9 earthquake shook parts of Southern California on Jan. 19, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake struck about 12 miles northeast of Indio at around 5:56 p.m. PT. It caused ...

An earthquake typically sets off ruptures that ripple out from its underground origins. But on rare occasions, seismologists have observed quakes that reverse course, further shaking up areas that ...

Shortly before 7 p.m. on Monday, people in the Aroostook County town of Bridgewater reported feeling the ground shake. So did those due south in Monticello and north into Westfield and Presque Isle.

For obvious reasons, it would be useful to predict when an earthquake is going to occur. It has long been suspected that large quakes in the Himalayas follow a fairly predictable cycle, but nature, as ...

To see how a magnitude-9.0 earthquake would rattle the Pacific Northwest, researchers ran 50 virtual simulations on a supercomputer. When coyotes threatened livestock on central Texas ranches, the ...

This contribution is part of the special series of Inaugural Articles by members of the National Academy of Sciences elected in 2023. Contributed by Emily E. Brodsky; received October 28, 2025; ...

A rare type of deep underground earthquake occurring in the Earth’s mantle, which can trigger dangerous surface quakes, has finally been isolated and mapped by Stanford researchers. The team’s global ...