The USGS said on its website following the quake in July: "Following the M8.8 Russian Kamchatka Peninsula Earthquake, the ...

The earthquakes both struck at a shallow depth of approximately 10 kilometers, or about 6 miles below the surface.

The authors of the opinion article say California hazard maps and building codes should account for the possibility of supershear quakes triggering very intense shaking. Strong shaking could also ...

Nearly 75% of the country is at risk for a potentially damaging earthquake in the next 100 years, according to a recently updated map from the U.S. Geological Survey. The map is the first to include ...

(NEXSTAR) — While areas like California and the West Coast may be top of mind when you think of where earthquakes occur in the U.S., a new report shows nearly 75% of the country could experience a ...

Nearly all of California has a more than 95% chance of a damaging earthquake in the next century, a new United States Geological Survey map shows. The new USGS National Seismic Hazard Model released ...

Several small earthquakes shook Western North Carolina in the past week. Damaging earthquakes in the Tar Heel State are not common. Both of the recent earthquakes, which occurred Sept. 10 and Sept. 11 ...

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) recorded close to 800 aftershocks by Wednesday afternoon ...

According to a study by Malaysia’s Department of Mineral and Geoscience, Pahang, Terengganu, Perak and Negeri Sembilan in ...

The magnitude-7.5 earthquake and its aftershocks devastated parts of Ishikawa prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast - Copyright AFP Toshifumi KITAMURA The magnitude-7. ...

This story is part of the KXAN Data Hub, where numbers help tell the whole story. AUSTIN (KXAN) — When you think of earthquakes in the U.S., Texas is probably not the first state that comes to mind.