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

Segamat was once again hit by a minor earthquake tonight, marking the third incident in the area within a few days.The ...

Seismologists have developed a new measurement of seismic energy release that can be applied to large earthquakes.

The meteorological department (MetMalaysia) said the 3.4-magnitude quake occurred at around 4.24am, about 12km northeast of Segamat at a depth of 10km. “Tremors were felt in Johor. The department is ...

A new measure that compares earthquake-related fatalities to a country’s population size concludes that Ecuador, Lebanon, Haiti, Turkmenistan, Iran and Portugal have experienced the greatest ...

An earthquake shook homes and rattled windows with a loud rumble heard far and wide across the Adelaide Hills, Fleurieu ...

Seismographs measure ground motion, including the energy released by an earthquake. In 1979, American scientist Thomas Hanks and Japanese scientist Hiroo Kanamori introduced a new and more precise ...

There are thousands of earthquakes around the world each year, but only a few cause serious damage. Earthquakes are measured in magnitude, on a scale ranging from micro to great. A magnitude of 6. ...

Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) Against the decades-old debate of whether the magnitude scale or the intensity scale gives better earthquake measurement, the USGS ...

Officials said the earthquake, which occurred at 1.41 p.m., had its epicentre in the Kupwara area of the Valley. The tremors ...

PROF. EWING explained that the study of earthquakes had two aspects, one geological and the other mechanical, and it was of the latter alone that his lecture was to treat. The mechanical student ...

The USGS's Other Earthquake Measurement August 25, 2016 / 2:59 PM MDT / CBS Colorado By Alan Gionet GOLDEN, Colo. (CBS4) - It's a complicated formula for calculating the severity of earthquakes.