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 ...

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 ...

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

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

February is Earthquake Awareness Month, and the Mid-South sits directly above one of the most active fault systems in the country.

For more than a month, the Bay Area has been subjected to a seemingly ceaseless stampede of earthquakes — the latest in a series of seismic swarms that have rattled windows and raised fears across ...

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

A 6.6-magnitude earthquake has struck just off the coast of Taiwan on Dec. 27, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake's epicenter was about 20 miles east of Yilan County, Taiwan, and it ...

The measurements were comparable to those taken during past regional earthquakes, MSS said. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.