The Cascadia Subduction Zone is unusually quiet for a megathrust fault. Spanning more than 600 miles from Canada to ...

On Feb. 28, 2001 at 10:54 a.m., a 6.8 magnitude earthquake rattled western Washington, leaving billions of dollars in damages ...

Today marks the 25th anniversary of the powerful Nisqually earthquake, a magnitude 6.8 temblor that shook Western Washington and left lasting changes in how the ...

South Carolina community hit with a 3.0 magnitude earthquake. How often do earthquakes occur in the Palmetto State?

The shallow quake was centered near South Carolina's capital.

An earthquake typically sets off ruptures that ripple out from its underground origins. But on rare occasions, seismologists ...

A magnitude 3.5 earthquake was reported at 9:40 p.m.

Minor ground motions were detected by monitoring stations in Singapore during an earthquake that struck off the Malaysian ...

Hokkaido Faces Imminent Supermassive Earthquake, Tsunami Warning Study Reveals Accumulated Energy in Kuril Trench Could ...

The threat of earthquakes should be taken as “constant” in regions where tremors come and go, according to seismologists who describe the concept of an overdue disaster as a “myth. ” After assessing ...

Make no mistake—this doesn’t mean there is no danger. The researchers urge policymakers to treat seismic risk as a constant.

To see how a magnitude-9.0 earthquake would rattle the Pacific Northwest, researchers ran 50 virtual simulations on a ...