An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 rocked the San Francisco Bay area early Sunday morning, causing serious damage to the Napa County area, and felt all over Northern California. Much like in the ...

As the world's tectonic plates crash, grind and dive into one another, they release their pent-up energy in giant earthquakes that can rock the ground, trigger volcanic eruptions, move mountains and ...

On the freezing evening of December 16, 1920, in the rural highlands of northwest China, thousands of families were settling in for the night. In the loess caves and mud-brick homes of Gansu Province, ...

Stanford researchers have created the first-ever global map of a rare earthquake type that occurs not in Earth's crust but in ...

A mild earthquake that rattled parts of southern and central Ontario on Tuesday might just have you wondering how often this part of the province ...

A powerful 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck the Far East region of Russia on Wednesday, generating tsunami waves that reached the coasts of Japan, Hawaii and Alaska. Authorities in several Pacific ...