A 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck off the Oregon Coast on Jan. 15. The earthquake was detected around 7:25 p.m., approximately 183 miles off the coast of Bandon on the Blanco Fracture Zone, and at a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred Thursday evening off Oregon. (Quakebot) A large earthquake was reported at 7:25 p.m. Thursday ...

The Mendocino Triple Junction off the coast of Northern California is the point where three tectonic plates meet. A new study reveals at least five moving pieces deep below the Earth's surface make up ...

The work, by researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey, the University of California, Davis and the University of Colorado Boulder, is published in Science. "If we don't understand the underlying ...

A small town in California was hit by earthquakes once every 22 years for over a century, setting the stage for a major seismic experiment in the 1980s and 90s. But the quake ended up being 11 years ...

Hundreds of earthquakes have been detected rattling Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier, also known as the Doomsday Glacier — the disintegration of which could send between two and 10 feet of devastating ...

Earthquakes usually strike without warning. But sometimes they come in clusters — dozens or even hundreds of small quakes concentrated in one area over days or weeks. Geologists call these clusters ...

Two small earthquakes were reported in New England on Wednesday, including right here in Massachusetts.According to the U.S. Geological Survey, a 1.8 magnitude earthquake was registered in Acushnet ...

Two earthquakes jolted southern New England on Wednesday, Jan. 7, according to the United States Geological Survey. The first, a magnitude 1.9 quake, was recorded in Moodus, Connecticut, at 5:36 p.m.

Earthquakes happen daily, sometimes with devastating consequences, yet predicting them remains out of reach. What scientists can do is map the hidden layers beneath the surface that control how ...

When an underwater earthquake rattles deep below Antarctica’s icy waters, the motion may set off a chain reaction that causes tiny organisms called phytoplankton to rapidly multiply at the ocean ...