Learn everything about earthquakes from types and magnitudes to prediction methods, fault lines, and safety tips. Know how to ...

While most earthquakes occur at plate boundaries, they can also happen along faults within a single tectonic plate. Read more ...

Earthquakes occur when the earth's crust moves, causing the ground to shake and structures to collapse. Earthquakes cause physical and psychological distress for people, by collapsing buildings ...

Earthquakes can rattle large swathes of the country. Here's what causes the geologic phenomenon.

Here's a brief explainer on how earthquakes begin, the worst quakes in California history and how to stay safe if one hits your town.

But the plate boundaries which produce most of the largest and most damaging earthquakes are those where two plates are moving towards each other. Typically when this happens, one plate starts ...

Last Saturday at 9:49am local time, a magnitude 5.6 earthquake occurred about 50km west of Gympie in Queensland. The ...

Scientists at the University of Kentucky and the University of Memphis may have learned why earthquakes often occur in places they aren't usually expected.