If you live in the U.S. you may have heard that the Pacific Northwest is supposedly overdue for an earthquake of colossal, ...

More than 300 years ago, a massive earthquake rocked the Pacific Northwest. That event came from the Cascadia subduction zone, a 700 mile fault line stretching from Northern California to British ...

Only a handful of people who witnessed the 1934 megaquake as children are still alive. And the memories of 2015 are fading fast. We were shaken, but have not stirred into action. We have not even ...

The operator of a nuclear power plant in central Japan received whistleblower reports regarding alleged manipulation of quake-resista ...

Japan has restarted a reactor at the world's largest nuclear plant nearly 15 years after a disaster at the Fukushima power plant forced the country to shut all its nuclear reactors. Reactor no.6 at ...

Earthquakes usually strike without warning. But sometimes they come in clusters — dozens or even hundreds of small quakes concentrated in one area over days or weeks. Geologists call these clusters ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A powerful 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck off the Oregon coast Thursday evening, centered 183 miles from Bandon ...

A magnitude 4.9 earthquake shook parts of Southern California on Jan. 19, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake struck about 12 miles northeast of Indio at around 5:56 p.m. PT. It caused ...

An earthquake swarm is a series of small quakes that “may occur in a region for months without a major earthquake,” according to Britannica.. Getty Images/iStockphoto A swarm of a half-dozen ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A magnitude 4.9 earthquake struck Riverside County on Monday evening, centered seven miles from Indio with ...

A 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck off the Oregon Coast on Jan. 15. The earthquake was detected around 7:25 p.m., approximately 183 miles off the coast of Bandon on the Blanco Fracture Zone, and at a ...

A 4.9 magnitude earthquake struck Southern California on Monday, centered about 12 miles north-northeast of Indio, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The quake occurred just before 6 p.m.