Earthquakes occur more often than you think. Here’s what you need to know about where they usually happen and how they’re ...

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

By Gary Clothier Question: I was told an earthquake in Madrid was the strongest ever felt in North America. How is that possible? N.H., Bar Harbor, Maine Answer: I bet are you thinking of Madrid ...

On August 23, 2025, a significant seismic event measuring M6.0 struck off the coast of Guatemala and El Salvador at precisely 09:14 UTC. With a shallow depth of just 10 km (6.2 miles), this earthquake ...

Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, the area in which a magnitude 8.8. earthquake occurred on July 29, is within the so-called ...

Earthquakes, also called temblors, can be so tremendously destructive that it’s hard to imagine they occur by the thousands every day around the world, usually in the form of small tremors. Most ...

Malaysia is typically not associated with earthquakes, thanks to its geographic location and geological makeup.However, such ...

The researchers discovered that the total sediment flowing through the river increased sixfold after the earthquake, while ...

A strong earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale shook Afghanistan’s Hindu Kush region on Tuesday. The earthquake ...

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

A 5.4-magnitude earthquake struck parts of Pakistan, including Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, and Islamabad, leaving residents in a state of panic. According to the National Seismic Monitoring Centre ...