There isn’t zero probability of earthquakes in the Rochester area, but it is much lower than in regions of the state with ...

On Wednesday morning (local time), an 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck just off the coast of eastern Russia. It was the sixth strongest earthquake on record! The great earthquake triggered tsunami ...

The fault, which is part of the San Andreas Fault system, produced two 6.2-magnitude earthquakes last century.

That was not your imagination. Two earthquakes in less than a week have rattled more than the ground across North Jersey. Whenever an earthquake strikes, many may wonder what caused the earthquake and ...

A magnitude-5.6 earthquake rattled parts of south-east Queensland near the Sunshine Coast on Saturday. People reported feeling tremors as far north as Rockhampton and as far south as Glen Innes in New ...

Hemmed in by rugged mountains, Afghanistan is prone to a range of natural disasters, but its earthquakes cause the most fatalities, killing about 560 people on average each year and causing annual ...

Earthquakes in the American state of Utah, the Soultz-sous-Forêts region of France or in the Dutch province of Groningen should not be able to occur even if the subsurface has been exploited for ...

Global distribution of natural and induced seismicity. Natural earthquakes with moment magnitude higher than 5 are color-coded according to their hypocenter depth (upper right colorbar, U.S.