Earthquakes in the eastern United States are probably more common than you think—but stronger ones like Friday’s are rare.

A 4.1 magnitude earthquake was confirmed in East Tennessee Saturday morning near the Tennessee-North Carolina state line by the U.S. Geological Survey. Although for the earthquake was felt across ...

Several earthquakes rocked near the Texas-New Mexico border on Tuesday morning, the latest in a slew of quakes to hit the region.

Here's what you need to know about how earthquakes are measured and what the scale of today's East Coast quake was.

A 4.1 magnitude earthquake was confirmed in East Tennessee Saturday morning near the Tennessee-North Carolina state line by the U.S. Geological Survey. Although for the earthquake was felt across ...

Regions near these historic earthquakes' epicenters are still seismically active today, so it's possible that some modern earthquakes could be long-lived aftershocks of past quakes.

Rest of World News: The world has witnessed several catastrophic earthquakes, with the 1960 Valdivia, Chile quake topping the list at magnitude 9.5. These seismic events, ...