Emergency management officials in South Carolina are reminding residents to be prepared as the state continues to experience ...

Australia is a long way from the tectonic plate boundaries where most earthquakes happen – but we can’t escape the forces ...

A swarm of more than 1,350 earthquakes shook Mount Rainier this summer. USGS scientists took a closer look. Here’s what they ...

The Morocco earthquake killed several thousand people and devastated parts of Marrakech and communities south of the major city.

A new USGS National Seismic Hazard Model released Tuesday shows where damaging earthquakes are most likely to occur in the United States.

In just a little more than a week, South Carolina has experienced close to a dozen earthquakes. Many of these happening ...

Look out, South Carolina, Illinois, and Missouri. Although California is well known for earthquakes, new federal government maps extend the high-risk zones for temblors across much more of the ...

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

Damaging earthquakes could strike nearly 75 percent of the U.S, new research from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) found. Scientists using the USGS National Seismic Hazard Model,created a color ...

THE recently enhanced seismic activity has con-tinued. Several strong earthquakes and tremors have been experienced in many widely separated places. On May 6, violent tremors were felt in Chile ...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has announced the release of new public web pages that show the probability of earthquake shaking in the next 24 hours in California. These maps graphically ...