About 55 earthquakes a day – 20,000 a year – are recorded by the National Earthquake Information Center. A quick guide to how they are measured.

The recent, small earthquakes that rattled the New York metro area serve as a reminder that seismic activity does occur in ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 3.0 hit Bergen County on the evening of Aug. 2, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

A worldwide Android smartphone-based earthquake detection and early warning system can detect seismic activity in real time.

On that day, two earthquakes — one a 3.5 magnitude and the other 3.6 — were included in a flurry of tremors and aftershocks.

“If you were to plot all earthquakes from 1970 to 2023, most of them are in the vicinity of that particular earthquake,” Olugboji said.

About 55 earthquakes a day – 20,000 a year – are recorded by the National Earthquake Information Center. A quick guide to how they are measured.