Deep beneath the surface, our planet is a reactor, and one of the ways you'll feel this activity is when there's an earthquake. Earthquakes are violent shaking from the planet's surface, according to ...

Most of Earth's seismic activity comes and goes without most people even realizing it. However, certain events are so forceful that their effects can be felt from thousands of miles away. You can even ...

Last weekend’s earthquakes made much of Southern California realize, once again, that it’s time to get ready for the Big One. According to seismologist and earthquake safety expert, Lucy Jones, “It ...

A 5.2 magnitude earthquake struck San Diego County on Monday, the largest quake in the region since 2010. While officials have said there were no injuries or major structural damage reported, the ...

Today we're talking earthquake preparedness. Before you click next because you think you don't live in an area prone to earthquakes, let me just point out that, according to the USGS, states including ...

I was just a kid when 1994’s devastating Northridge earthquake hit, but I still remember waking up to the shaking in the ...

Earthquakes can be deadly and disastrous. But what we feel may constitute a tiny sliver of an earthquake’s destructive energy, according to a new experiment. In a recent AGU Advances paper, ...

Earthquakes that shake the ground under Redding are a sign of something bigger happening deep below the far Northern California region, geologists say. The culprit is also responsible for much of what ...

First there was Haiti, then Chile, Taiwan and Turkey, all struck by a string of earthquakes that have rattled the world in the past few months. In Haiti, more than 200,000 people were killed by a ...

LAKE COUNTY, CA - According to the U.S. Geological Survey, a preliminary 2.2 magnitude quake occurred close to Nice Tuesday night. The tremor struck at 10:11 p.m., with its epicenter located ...