Nearly 75% of the country is at risk for a potentially damaging earthquake in the next 100 years, according to a recently updated map from the U.S. Geological Survey. The map is the first to include ...

Volcanoes and earthquakes have always shared the same restless roots, but the numbers that drive public fear are not always ...

Japan has issued a Hokkaido–Sanriku Subsequent Earthquake Advisory after the M7.4–7.5 quake, warning that the probability of ...

A minor, 3.7-magnitude earthquake struck in the San Francisco Bay Area on Monday, according to the United States Geological ...

HAWAII (KITV) - Hawai'i is a seismically active state, as indicated by the thousands of earthquakes recorded each year by the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. Damaging ground shaking has occurred ...

A new study by Northwestern University researchers and coworkers explains a puzzling problem with maps of future earthquake shaking used to design earthquake-resistant buildings. Although ...

It’s only a matter of time before another significant earthquake comes to California. Since September is National Preparedness Month, here are a few tips and a historic look at our quakes. Prepare and ...

An earthquake map from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) shows that minor earthquakes hit nine states on Friday morning. California is perhaps the state most known for earthquakes, as the Golden State ...

A research team studied earthquake hazard maps from five countries and found that all the maps seemed to overpredict the historically observed earthquake shaking intensities. In analyzing the possible ...