The Fire and Disaster Management Agency issued an emergency alert at the time of the quake, predicting strong shaking in the ...

About 55 earthquakes a day – 20,000 a year – are recorded by the National Earthquake Information Center. Most are tiny and barely noticed by people living where they happen. But some are strong enough ...

Earthquakes and seismic activity often happen with sudden movements underground with tectonic plates. Seismographs are used by scientists to measure the time, location and strength of an earthquake.

A strong earthquake has struck eastern Hokkaido, northern Japan. Meteorological Agency officials say there is no threat of ...

A minor earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.3 struck in Southern California on Thursday, according to the United ...

To test if earthquakes that occur successively at different locations are related to each other — in this case, the twin quakes in Davao Oriental after the one in Cebu — geologists employ a technique ...

A moderately strong, 5.1-magnitude earthquake struck in Japan on Tuesday, according to the United States Geological Survey.

Out of 20 North Carolina earthquakes registered in 2025 so far, a vast majority were in the same county, according to data ...