About 55 earthquakes a day – 20,000 a year – are recorded by the National Earthquake Information Center. Most are tiny and barely noticed by people living where they happen. But some are strong enough ...

The overnight quake followed a stronger 4.9-magnitude earthquake earlier this week that caused serious shaking across the ...

(WHTM) — April 26 is the birthday of Seismologist Charles Richter, co-creator with Beno Gutenberg of the Richter Scale, which measures the intensity of earthquakes. In the early 1930s, the field of ...

The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.2 miles and had an estimated intensity of VI on the modified Mercalli intensity scale ...

A light, 4.7-magnitude earthquake struck in Utah on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor ...

SOMONAUK - At 2:53 A.M. a 3.4 magnitude earthquake, originating about 1.2 miles northwest from the Village of Somonauk, shook communities in south Dekalb county. On their earthquake intensity scale, ...

PM, a minor earthquake measuring a magnitude of 3.4 struck the southern region of Hokkaido, Japan. The tremor was shallow, with no tsunami threat reported, ensuring that residents were not in ...

VANCOUVER, B.C. (KOMO) — The North Pacific by British Columbia's Vancouver Island was rattled by a series of earthquakes Thursday morning, the largest quake measured as 6.4 magnitude. According to the ...

Over the last few days, the Coachella Valley has experienced more than 20 earthquakes, causing concern among some residents.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reported that the magnitude 4.9 earthquake struck about 12 miles northeast of Indio, CA in ...

An earthquake, measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale, occurred on Monday with the epicentre in the Leh area of the Ladakh region ...