Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A rare earthquake stuck off the coast of Maine on Monday, causing people to report feeling shaking all throughout New England and ...

Nearly 75% of the country is at risk for a potentially damaging earthquake in the next 100 years, according to a recently updated map from the U.S. Geological Survey. The map is the first to include ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A California Geological Survey map released earlier this year depicts just how intense and damaging the shaking from future ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit Northern California on Thursday, causing a tsunami warning and several aftershocks. The tsunami warning -- which impacted at least 5.3 million people ...

The United States Geological Survey recorded a 3.9-magnitude earthquake in the Gulf on Sunday.

About 55 earthquakes a day – 20,000 a year – are recorded by the National Earthquake Information Center. Most are tiny and barely noticed by people living where they happen. But some are strong enough ...

A light, 4.1-magnitude earthquake struck in Southern California on Friday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 3:13 p.m. Pacific time about 16 miles northwest of ...

A major, 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck in the South Pacific Ocean on Tuesday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 12:37 a.m. Eastern about 103 miles west of ...

Earthquakes are some of nature’s most destructive forces, but what if we could better predict where they might strike? A new global stress map, based on more than 100,000 measurements, reveals areas ...

As Utah prepares for an overdue, big earthquake, University of Utah seismologists found that current seismic hazard models may be underestimating the intensity of shaking the Salt Lake Valley could ...

A rare earthquake stuck off the coast of Maine on Monday, causing people to report feeling shaking all throughout New England and into New York. A magnitude 3.8 earthquake was recorded at 10:22 a.m.