Last night’s strong and shallow 5.3 quake was felt by more than 23,000 people: mostly across the lower North Island. A ...

Poverty, job loss and high insurance costs have led to a lack of earthquake insurance in New Madrid, Missouri — a town with a ...

Alex de Steiguer was about to send an email from a house on Star Island, 7 miles off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire, when she heard what she thought was a big plane flying over. Outside, a flock ...

Taupō residents were feeling nervous today after a “swarm” of more than 50 earthquakes were recorded in the area overnight.

The largest known New England earthquakes were a 6.5-magnitude in 1638 centered in Vermont or New Hampshire, and a 5.8-magnitude centered offshore from Cape Ann in 1755, which resulted in severe ...

Some scientists believe that animals can detect earthquakes before they happen—and this U.S. species might be one of nature’s ...

An earthquake was reported in Elgin, South Carolina, early Friday morning. The United States Geological Survey confirmed a ...

while doing so I started to suspect it might be an earthquake. Glad it was ‘only’ that!” “There are small faults around us. They are not major plates that cause big earthquakes.

A magnitude 3.8 earthquake off the coast of Maine shook parts of the Northeast on Monday morning, with residents as far away as Boston feeling the rumble, officials said.

A light but rare 3.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of southern Maine on Monday morning, according to the United ...