4.8 Earthquake In New Jersey Rattles New York Metro Area NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 5: In this photo illustration, an emergency alert is displayed from the national Emergency Broadcast System warning ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - In scientific fields, numbers are everywhere. Knowing what those numbers mean is easier to understand in some cases, and in other cases, not so much. An earthquake's magnitude, on ...

So just how big was last Friday’s earthquake? Depending on what source you read — and when you read it — the magnitude of the ...

Iran is highly active seismically due to its position on the Alpine-Himalayan seismic belt, and thus, experiences frequent earthquakes, with over 2,000 annually, including 15 to 16 of magnitude 5.0 or ...

When you hear of an earthquake, you usually hear its intensity described using a number. To most, that number represents the strength of the earthquake, or how much damage the shifting tectonic plates ...