Earthquakes can be like Jell-O. A simple, yet often used analogy is that if you’re sitting in a valley or basin it acts like a bowl of Jell-O and it will shake more than surrounding rock. But ...

School principal Yoshiro Tobo is one of the few people left on his remote Japanese island, where the earth is constantly ...

A new kind of earthquake has been detected in western Canada, one that shakes the ground slower and longer than typical ...

The ground is displaced by 8 feet along the fault that ruptured in the magnitude 7.1 Ridgecrest earthquake of July 5, 2019. (Brian Olson / California Geological Survey) ...

Welcome to your weekly seismic update from across the state, brought to you by the Alaska Earthquake Center, where we monitor ...

While rare, Redding does get earthquakes strong enough for us to feel. Here's why Shasta and Siskiyou counties and the north ...

The 4.8-magnitude earthquake that shook ground from Boston to New York to Baltimore caused East Coasters to face the split-second decision about what to do when the ground is shaking — and ...

Another 2.6-magnitude earthquake rattled Tennessee on July 9 around 8:52 p.m., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Because ground improvement is a fraction of the cost of undercutting and replacing poor soils or installing deep foundations such as piles or caissons, many sites considered too expensive to develop ...

Major earthquake could cause WA ground to sink. Major earthquakes in subduction zones are often accompanied by subsidence, which is when the ground sinks by a few feet.

Officials are tracking the largest swarm of earthquakes in more than 15 years on Washington's Mount Rainier but say there is ...

Giant layers of rocks below the ground in western New Jersey have been shifting slightly — sometimes once a day, sometimes a few times a day — all because of a sizable earthquake on April 5 ...