So what's your advice for explaining earthquakes to kids in a way that doesn't freak them out? Jacob: With my kids, I tell them what the science is: It's that the earth is under a lot of stress ...

When it does, it releases energy in a burst, which causes the shaking of an earthquake. Earthquakes happen most often where tectonic plates meet. Tectonic plates are pieces of crust that fit ...

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) located six earthquakes at Mount Adams last month when the volcano usually only sees one every few years. Just two months earlier, a 6.4-magnitude quake ...