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New research offers the theory that the San Andreas fault and the Cascadia subduction zone could produce devastating ...

Philippine seismologists say that a new offshore earthquake with a preliminary 6.9 magnitude hit the same southern region ...

The USGS said on its website following the quake in July: "Following the M8.8 Russian Kamchatka Peninsula Earthquake, the ...

They are two of the West Coast's most destructive generators of huge quakes: the San Andreas fault and the Cascadia ...

Seismic activity returned to South Carolina over the weekend, as an earthquake was recorded in an area that’s recently experienced lots of tremors. The Palmetto State’s first earthquake of September ...

Hundreds of aftershocks have been recorded following the magnitude 7.4 earthquake that hit Davao Oriental on Friday morning.

The 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the southern Philippines island of Mindanao and prompted a tsunami warning.

Philippine seismologists say that a new offshore earthquake with a preliminary 6.9 magnitude hit the same southern region ...

Two dead and tsunami warnings lifted after powerful 7.4-magnitude tremor - Officials are telling people to ‘immediately ...

Nearly all of the seismic activity since the spring was recorded in the Greenwood County area, where 18 quakes have been confirmed since Aug. 18, SCDNR data shows. The most recent also was the last ...