Earlier today, a powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 struck off the coast of Northern California, causing widespread ...

Six people are reportedly dead, and buildings and cars are damaged after a magnitude 7.3 earthquake hit the capital of ...

Videos show damage in capital Port Vila including to building housing British embassy, and several small tsunami waves ...

The most recent significant earthquake to cause widespread damage was reported on October 7, 2023, west of the city of Herat in Afghanistan. It was a 6.3-magnitude tremor that left more than 2,000 ...

Earthquakes can happen any time of year with little warning. Before Thursday's quake, the most recent significant earthquake in California was the Ridgecrest quake on July 5, 2019, which measured ...

The summit region had gone from experiencing 10 earthquakes per day to 20 per day, officials said during their weekly update ...

At least 10 buildings in Port Vila suffered significant damage, while a nearby landslide was responsible for at least six ...

All these earthquakes were just the latest in a string of incidents that ... the western edge of the North American plate, one of the most seismically active areas on the planet.

These plates, called tectonic plates, can push against each other. Earthquakes are most common along fault lines, which are fractures that allow the plates to move. Earthquakes occur when two ...

A new collection of published papers offers the most detailed and comprehensive breakdown yet of how water injected into the Permian Basin during oil and gas operations is changing subsurface ...