Most of the recorded glacial earthquakes were discovered along the coast of Greenland, the largest ice cap in the Northern ...

When Texas Started Shaking More Than California In 2023, Texas and California were nearly tied for the number of magnitude 3 ...

For more than a month, the Bay Area has been subjected to a seemingly ceaseless stampede of earthquakes, rattling windows and ...

The public could have days or months of warning about a major earthquake through identification of prior low-level tectonic unrest over large areas, according to research by scientists who analyzed ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the history of science and exploration. This week’s massive magnitude 8.8 earthquake in eastern Russia, which triggered ...

A magnitude 5.0 earthquake struck near Toyah, Texas, a sparsely populated town 190 miles east from El Paso, on Friday, February 14, 2025 (Figure 1). The quake was felt all the way to Albuquerque. The ...

Illustration of the Cascadia subduction zone, a region where the patterns examined in this study play out. (Credit: Carie Frantz, Wikimedia Commons) When we think of earthquakes, we imagine sudden, ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Dozens of small earthquakes have shaken the San Francisco Bay Area over the last month, rattling nerves and ...

A burst of low magnitude earthquakes in Northern California is just the latest in a series of earthquake clusters raising questions about whether seismic activity is increasing in the region. On ...

The recent flurry of earthquakes in South Carolina is continuing to rumble under ground in the same area of the Palmetto State. Three more earthquakes, on Sunday night and Monday, in Greenwood County ...