when an earthquake strikes, tremors fade out in a more-or-less-symmetrical, bull's-eye pattern around the "epicenter," the point on the surface of the earth above the "focus" where the quake ...

NEW JERSEY - The discovery of a new fault line ... s magnitude 4.8 earthquake that struck the heart of New Jersey, yet was felt the strongest miles away from the epicenter, a new research study ...

DUBLIN, Calif. (KGO) -- From Napa to Santa Cruz, many Bay Area residents say they felt the big jolt of a 3.9 earthquake on the Calaveras fault in the East Bay. It struck at 7:46 p.m. Monday night ...

One year after a rare earthquake rattled Long Island ... drove an hour to the epicenter to begin mapping out the fault that same day. He was measuring fractures when he felt an aftershock ...

The scientists' findings show the earthquake was unique in several ways. The earthquake's damage was wide-ranging and not limited to the area around the epicenter, which is unusual, as were the ...

WELL INTO VERMONT, AND DOWN PAST THE The earthquake, centered off the coast of Portsmouth, was felt hundreds of miles away from the epicenter. See this interactive map from the USGS that shows ...

On March 28, 2025, the city of Mandalay, Myanmar was hit by a magnitude 7.7 earthquake which ... activity along the Sagaing Fault," the study continues. "From the epicenter, the rupture propagated ...

“Every one of us has active faults nearby. We don’t know which one’s going to go next.” — Dr. Lucy Jones Those closer to the epicenter of the earthquake will feel more jerky ...

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck Taiwan at a depth of 10 kilometers on Wednesday, rattling the island and prompting swift ...

Note: A shakemap represents the ground shaking produced by an earthquake. The information is different from the earthquake‘s magnitude and epicenter ... they go from the focus of the earthquake ...