While most earthquakes occur at plate boundaries, they can also happen along faults within a single tectonic plate. Read more ...

A swarm of more than 1,350 earthquakes shook Mount Rainier this summer. USGS scientists took a closer look. Here’s what they ...

Among the active volcanic eruptions was the Krasheninnikov volcano, a previously at least 400-year-dormant volcano.

The Russian Coast’s strongest earthquake since 1952 provided enough energy for six volcanoes adjacent to the Ring of Fire to ...

SONOMA COUNTY, CA - on Wednesday around midday, a preliminary 2.3 magnitude quake was reported close to The Geysers, ...

THE character of earthquakes, that is, of the disturbance which can be felt and causes damage, has long been established as a form of elastic wave motion, originated by some sudden disturbance in ...

IN the course of a lecture delivered recently before the Rigaku Kyôkai, or Science Society of Tokio, on the causes of earthquakes, Prof. Milne classified the theories as to the cause of these ...

The cause of Earth's deepest earthquakes has been a mystery to science for more than a century, but a team of scientists may have now cracked the case. New research provides evidence that ...

Two more small earthquakes have been detected in Greenwood County. The U.S. Geological Survey confirmed two earthquakes, a ...