A 6.3 magnitude earthquake rattled Davao Oriental's waters at 9:58 a.m. on Tuesday, June 24, Phivolcs said. In its second bulletin, Phivolcs said the quake’s epicenter was located 341 kilometers ...

The 7.5-magnitude earthquake appears to be the result of what's known as a strike-slip fault, which takes place as two blocks of crust grind against one another, largely in a horizontal direction.

By bnm Tehran bureau A 5.5 magnitude earthquake struck near Sarkheh in Iran's Semnan province on June 20 at 21:19 local time, ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

As per the NCS, the earthquake occurred on late Thursday, at a shallow depth of 10km, making it susceptible to aftershocks.

Residents of Peshawar were jolted by a mild earthquake on Wednesday, with tremors measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale, Geo News reported, citing the Seismological Centre. According to Geo News, the ...

California's earthquakes are far more likely to be "overdue" compared with earthquakes in the rest of the world.

Earthquakes in the U.S. are also common in California and Alaska due to their location across various fault lines, but surprise tremors have also shaken the Midwest occasionally.

For this week’s Fault Lines column, Jon Allsop is filling in for Jay Caspian Kang. In 1911, voters in Los Angeles founded a newspaper. It was called the Municipal News, and proclaimed itself ...