With Australia's most significant earthquake disaster occurring more than 35 years ago, many people consider quakes to be quite rare in Australia. But it turns out they're more common than you'd think ...

New Jersey experiences earthquakes due to the fault line running through the state. Here is the science behind the cause and ...

THE character of earthquakes, that is, of the disturbance which can be felt and causes damage, has long been established as a form of elastic wave motion, originated by some sudden disturbance in ...

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

The cause of Earth's deepest earthquakes has been a mystery to science for more than a century, but a team of scientists may have now cracked the case. New research provides evidence that ...

IN the course of a lecture delivered recently before the Rigaku Kyôkai, or Science Society of Tokio, on the causes of earthquakes, Prof. Milne classified the theories as to the cause of these ...

A geologic event known as diking can cause strong earthquakes -- with a magnitude between 6 and 7, according to an international research team. Diking can occur all over the world but most often ...

ORANGE COUNTY, CA - the U.S. Geological Survey reported that a preliminary 2.0 magnitude quake shook close to Huntington ...