Every year, the Earth shakes thousands of times. Most of those tremors go unnoticed, felt only by sensitive instruments ...

Earthquakes don’t occur everywhere. They occur along the boundaries of the earth’s tectonic plates, along either known active faults or dormant faults. The East Coast is crisscrossed with ancient ...

Climate journalist Emma Pattee has been worried about the so-called big one—an off-the-charts earthquake—hitting her town in Portland, Ore., for some time now. She’s not alone: scientists estimate at ...

A few days ago, the forces beneath Alaska rattled people within a 500-mile radius: A magnitude 7 earthquake ripped under Hubbard Glacier. The earthquake’s main shock and aftershocks have revealed ...

A swarm of offshore earthquakes near the Pacific Northwest poses no threat to land, says Harold Tobin of the Pacific ...

The 121st anniversary of the Kangra earthquake was commemorated with a shake-out drill in educational institutions. An international seminar discussed the heightened seismic risk due to tectonic ...