New research uncovers a surprising clue in earthquake forecasting: tiny curved scratches on fault planes. These marks reveal ...
A record-breaking deep earthquake registered in May 2015 offshore of Japan likely was not a tectonic event but triggered by a ...
January 26 marked the 325th anniversary since the last earthquake struck the Cascadia subduction zone. Centuries later, the ...
People across the region felt a 3.8 magnitude earthquake that was centered off the coast of Maine in York Harbor. So how rare ...
February marks Earthquake Awareness Month, and the Arkansas Department of Emergency Management is commencing a campaign to ...
Experts say that while it has been quiet after Monday's quake, the risk of one or more aftershocks is not out of the question ...
Poverty, job loss and high insurance costs have led to a lack of earthquake insurance in New Madrid, Missouri — a town with a ...
Experts said we see earthquakes like the one that hit Monday only once every several years or so, and when we see something ...
Ebel said it is particularly interesting to him that the earthquake once centered offshore. The area known as the Norumbega fault zone may be to blame. In 1755 there was an earthquake in that area ...
The Eastern U.S. certainly doesn't have the robust quaking activity seen on the West Coast — as there are no well-defined faults or major earthquake zones like California's infamous San Andreas ...