An earthquake was detected near the Ohio River early Thursday morning, according to the United States Geological Survey.

A new study suggests the seismic energy traveled outward from a previously unmapped fault, emanating from the hypocenter in ...

Similar quakes in the region in the future, a seismologist warned, "could maybe focus energy toward population centers." ...

Some earthquakes are imperceptibly quiet. We may not feel them, but machines might detect them—and they can point scientists to a potential "Big One".

While accurate, Fox News’s 2020 election night projection that Joe Biden won Arizona created an existential challenge for the ...

For shallow earthquakes (earthquakes with a focus near the surface of the Earth), the surface waves may be the largest waves recorded by the seismograph. Often they are the only waves recorded a long ...

“Some that are not even that big could maybe focus energy toward population centers. If [the April] earthquake was just a little stronger, or a little closer to New York City, the effect would ...

Turkey sits on one of the world's two most active fault lines, which means numerous devastating earthquakes have claimed thousands of lives and reshaped entire cities. Turkish history is still ...

When an earthquake occurred on Sept. 24 in the waters near Torishima island, it set off a sense of urgency at the Japan ...

The initial focus will be on areas with socially vulnerable populations, Maffei said. Soft-story apartments have been a killer in past earthquakes. During the predawn magnitude 6.7 Northridge ...

That is spurring efforts around the world to develop a new generation of earthquake monitoring and climate forecasting ...

As part of a worldwide effort, the annual Great Oregon ShakeOut took place Thursday morning to encourage people to focus on earthquake preparedness. The ShakeOut occurs on the third Thursday of ...