On Thursday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) announced updated U.S. National Seismic Hazard Maps, which reflect the most current scientific views on where future earthquakes will occur ...

More than 143 million Americans live in an earthquake zone ... and his co-authors overlaid their hazards map with a population map from Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and maps of ...

Estimated property damage: up to 310 billion dollars. At the Tokai earthquake preparedness center in Shizuoka, a map pinpoints 6,449 landslide locations. Another map shows where 58,402 houses ...

When we hear that a magnitude 8 earthquake has struck, we know that’s worse than a magnitude 4 earthquake. But how much worse? It sounds like it should be twice as strong, but it's not.

The hazard maps ... earthquake prediction teeters precariously between the overly vague and overly precise. At one extreme, we can calculate the odds that big earthquakes will strike broad ...

Twenty-three hundred years ago, hordes of mice, snakes, and insects fled the Greek city of Helike on the Gulf of Corinth (map ... pulses per day," he told National Geographic News.

To create those maps, researchers deploy seismometers on the surface—little machines that sense and chronicle all sorts of vibrations, including earthquakes. Seismic waves are a bit like music.

Thousands of earthquakes occur every day. Most are too minor to feel but strong earthquakes can cause massive destruction—like this bridge that collapsed in Taiwan after an magnitude 6.8 ...

They can occur without warning and can lead to other natural disasters, such as fires, tsunamis, landslides and avalanches, according to National Geographic. Earthquakes are measured in magnitude ...