Only 3-5 of annual quakes are felt or noticed by residents, with 70% of them occurring in the Middleton Place-Summerville ...

The reappearance of long-forgotten habitats and the resurgence of species unseen for years may not be among the expected effects of a natural disaster. Yet that's exactly what researchers have found ...

When we think of earthquakes, we imagine sudden, violent shaking. But deep beneath the Earth's surface, some faults move in near silence. These slow, shuffling slips and their accompanying ...

A tsunami warning issued for Hawaii after one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded, an 8.8 magnitude in Russia's Far ...

When e arthquakes shook Cuba on Sunday, a few people in Miami felt them. Social media users quickly shared videos showing the local effects of the earthquake, but a city of Miami spokeswoman ...

When we think of earthquakes, we imagine sudden, violent shaking. But deep beneath the Earth’s surface, some faults move in near silence. These slow, shuffling slips and their accompanying hum — ...

In many historic depictions of earthquakes, but also recent movies, one of the most frightening effects of an earthquake are fissures that suddenly open, engulfing people and animals.

CAPTAIN DUTTON'S valuable memoir on the Charleston earthquake of 1886 contains many accounts of the effects of this great earthquake on human beings. Nowhere could they be more vivid than in ...

In southern California, the people of Ridgecrest have frayed nerves after back-to-back temblors and ongoing, sizable aftershocks. Officials have brought in counselors and therapy dogs.

"We should count it as a win that a tsunami occurred, we got a warning and it wasn’t the worst-case scenario," a seismic ...