A deep earthquake in Chile surprised scientists by using heat to grow stronger far underground and cause serious surface ...

A magnitude 3.3 earthquake was recorded in Weber County, with residents across northern Utah reporting the quake.The ...

— James Webb, Mineral Point, Wis. A Chuck DeMets, professor of geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: Most earthquakes occur when a geological fault, a fracture within the Earth’s crust, ...

A period of slow, creeping movement without any shaking may be a necessary prelude to earthquakes, a new study suggests. The research, which was on the fundamentals of how materials rupture, focused ...

Tiny tremors and temblors recently discovered in fault zones from California to Japan are generated by slow-moving earthquakes that may foreshadow catastrophic seismic events, according to scientists ...

Humans weren’t the only ones in Southern California that felt the rattling 5.2-magnitude earthquake in San Diego County on Monday. Elephants at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in Escondido were filmed ...

Earthquakes are a serious hazard across Canada. There are about 4,000 earthquakes recorded across the country in a typical year, according to Earthquakes Canada, though only about 50 of them are ever ...

CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CA - at midday on Wednesday, a 3.0 magnitude quake was registered near Dublin, according to the U.S.

CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CA - According to the U.S. Geological Survey, a preliminary 3.2 magnitude quake rattled close to San Ramon Thursday afternoon.