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 ...

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 ...

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 ...