The quake’s epicenter lies in the remote waters between South America and Antarctica, where seismic activity is rare.

MEXICALI, B.C. - A preliminary 2.3 magnitude quake was recorded close to Progreso, B.C. Saturday night, the U.S. Geological ...

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

HUMBOLDT COUNTY, CA - A preliminary 2.0 magnitude quake was reported near Ferndale at midday on Saturday, according to the ...

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“In the best-case scenario, when you adopt these new techniques, even on the same old data, it’s kind of like putting on glasses for the first time, and you can see the leaves on the trees,” said Kyle ...

Here are my tips for what to do before, during and after an earthquake. The more prepared you are, the more you'll be able to ...

Surprisingly, they found that only around 10% of a quake’s energy causes the physical shaking most people associate with ...

The West Coast of North America is a geologically tumultuous zone where tectonic plates collide, subducting under and ...

Samples from the seafloor reveal evidence of several earthquakes along the West Coast’s two major fault zones happening in ...

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

A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck 43 kilometers east of Manay, Davao Oriental, at 9:43 a.m. on Friday. Hours later, a ...