In 1638, an earthquake in what is now New Hampshire and Plymouth, Massachusetts, left colonists stumbling from the strong ...

On April 18, 1906, a sound similar to ‘the roar of 10,000 lions’ filled the air as the ground shook in San Francisco, ...

Lake sediment cores in Guatemala reveal directional ground shaking from the 1976 earthquake, offering rare insight into ...

It was history. On March 11, 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake, magnitude 9.0, struck 80 miles off the Northeast Coast of Japan, generating a series ...

The US experiences violent earthquakes, but the damage and death toll is much lower than in many countries because of the ...

Alameda County, Mendocino County, San Bernadino County, and San Mateo County are all featured in the top 10, at fifth, ...

Epicentre located about 36km from one of seven locations where federal opposition proposes building nuclear power plant if ...

While not a household name like the San Andreas, the Elsinore fault is part of a larger seismic zone that experts fear and ...

What are the biggest earthquakes in history? - Massive Myanmar earthquake causes widespread destruction, with hundreds feared ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 shook Istanbul and other areas of Turkey on Wednesday, ...