A 3.8 magnitude earthquake off York Harbor, Maine, shook Seacoast New Hampshire, southern Maine and much of New England Monday. It caught the entire region by surprise, public safety dispatch centers ...

Underwater earthquakes can trigger massive phytoplankton blooms, linking deep-sea seismic activity to ocean life and carbon ...

A 3.8 magnitude earthquake off York Harbor, Maine, shook Seacoast New Hampshire, southern Maine and much of New England Monday. It caught the entire region by surprise, public safety dispatch centers ...

Hundreds of earthquakes have shaken the same region in California in just one month, leaving residents worried about whether ...

Nearly one week after a magnitude 5.4 earthquake shook the Borderland, experts are revealing what may have caused it. The quake hit Saturday night, with a preliminary rating of 5.3 on the Richter ...

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from David Shelly, seismologist with the U ...

Early Friday, a major 7.7 magnitude earthquake that originated near Mandalay, Myanmar, shook the Earth as far as Bangkok, about 800 miles away. Two hard-hit cities in Myanmar suffered extensive damage ...

When a magnitude 8.8 earthquake rocked Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on Tuesday, officials warned that damaging tsunami waves could follow. Instead, the waves that reached Hawaii and the U.S. West ...

The Pacific Northwest is considered a seismically active area. Geologically speaking, earthquakes are the norm. Still, we haven’t seen a large quake here in a couple decades. That makes understanding ...

Geologists show how the earthquake's rupture direction may have affected who felt the strongest shaking on 5 April. The magnitude 4.8 Tewksbury earthquake surprised millions of people on the U.S. East ...

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 ...