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

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

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 ...

Earthquakes are primarily caused by movements in the Earth's crust, generating sound waves that propagate through the Earth. According to Derrick Hasterok, a lecturer in earth sciences at the ...

“We don’t really know what’s causing them. That’s one of the mysteries of the of eastern US earthquakes is we really don’t ...

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

CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CA - A preliminary 2.1 magnitude quake was recorded close to Martinez at midday on Wednesday, according ...

Since Thursday, at least 131 earthquakes have been recorded — as small as magnitude 0.2 and as big as magnitude 4 — in the ...

According to the USGS, New Jersey had 23 earthquakes in 2023 but the number spiked to 232 in 2024 including the magnitude 4.8 ...