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.

Why California's BIG EARTHQUAKE Hasn't Hit Yet ...

A lurch in the Earth’s tectonic plates can wreak havoc at any time – as we’ve just seen in Vanuatu. How do scientists measure ...

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 ...

People in B.C. regularly have earthquake drills at school and work, trying to prepare for what’s known as “the big one.” The ...

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.