Alaska has been hit by a strong 5.0 magnitude earthquake, just days after remnants of Typhoon Halong brought a record storm ...

The house rocked as if an earthquake had struck, and suddenly it was floating. Water seeped in through the front door, and ...

Supershear earthquakes are more common than previously believed, some scientists say — carrying potentially profound risk for ...

An earthquake is caused by a sudden slip on a fault, according to USGS. Tectonic plates are always slowly moving, but they get stuck at their edges due to friction. When the stress on an edge ...

The ground trembled off Alaska’s southern shores Thursday, delivering a fresh blow just as the state struggles to recover from unprecedented flooding. A magnitude 5.0 earthquake struck at 11:48 a.m.

From Anchorage’s boom in the 1940s to its changing face in the aftermath of the 1964 earthquake, these images help tell the ...

A major, 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck in the South Atlantic Ocean on Friday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The earthquake prompted alerts about potential tsunami along the coast ...

Increased warming in high-latitude wetlands seems poised to increase the activity of methanogens, or methane-producing ...

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

THE recent series of earthquakes recorded across the Philippines was not caused by manmade activity or foreign research programs, the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) clarified. Science ...