The post Second Earthquake in 3 Days Rattles Residents Along the East Coast—A Look at Major Cities Sitting on a Fault Line ...

New research uncovers a surprising clue in earthquake forecasting: tiny curved scratches on fault planes. These marks reveal ...

Within a decade, more than 5,000 residents lived in Malibu. Architects warned of the danger of building in the area, known to ...

A record-breaking deep earthquake registered in May 2015 offshore of Japan likely was not a tectonic event but triggered by a ...

A 3.8-magnitude earthquake centered near the Maine coast rattled houses in northern New England on Monday and was felt by ...

A 6.0 magnitude earthquake in Napa, California, in 2014 was only felt around 250 miles from its epicenter, the USGS reported. The reason is that rocks in the eastern U.S. are much older than in ...

Alex de Steiguer was about to send an email from a house on Star Island, 7 miles off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire, when she heard what she thought was a big plane flying over. Outside, a flock ...

Experts say that while it has been quiet after Monday's quake, the risk of one or more aftershocks is not out of the question ...

The Boston area shook from a rare, but minor, earthquake Monday morning. The U.S. Geological Survey rated the shaking as a ...

To better understand when a big earthquake is coming, there are earthquake monitoring stations across the state in remote locations.