According to the Alaska Earthquake Center, the Aleutian megathrust is the primary cause of the strongest earthquakes in the region. It's a major subduction zone fault, an area where two tectonic ...

A light, 4.1-magnitude earthquake struck in the San Francisco Bay Area on Thursday, according to the United States Geological ...

This interactive map from the California Integrated Seismic Network shows the location and relative size of earthquakes in California over the past week, including the 5.1 magnitude earthquake on ...

An 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s eastern coast on late Wednesday morning, local time. The quake triggered ...

The US Geological Survey creates earthquake shaking models designed to inform municipalities about building codes and insurance companies about the risk of seismic events.

Russia's massive quake has already triggered at least 10 aftershocks, and could continue for months, according to scientists.

Two central problems in seismology are the location of earthquake epicentres and the allocation of magnitudes to earthquakes. We show in this communication that these problems can be reduced to ...

In the hours after, social media was abuzz with discussions on how an earthquake can happen in Malaysia since the country is ...

In the aftermath of the magnitude 7.7 and 6.4 earthquakes that struck central Myanmar on March 28, the World Health ...

With more than 100 earthquakes of various shapes and sizes hitting aross the entire country, two more have struck with an ...