An earthquake of magnitude 4.2 struck Nepal and it occurred at a shallow depth of 10 kilometers. The country is highly earthquake-prone due to its location on a convergent boundary where the Indian ...

Borehole sensors were placed to detect slow-motion seismic event “It’s like a ripple moving across the plate interface,” said ...

An earthquake of magnitude 4.2 struck Nepal on Sunday, a statement by the National Center for Seismology (NCS) said. As per the NCS, the earthquake occurred at a shallow depth of 10km, making it ...

On the 100th anniversary of the quake that changed the city forever, the clock is ticking for the next Big One.

A magnitude 8 earthquake releases as much energy as detonating 6 million tons of TNT. Pretty impressive, huh? Fortunately, most of the earthquakes that occur each year are much too small to be felt by ...

In other areas, including the western U.S., the earthquake energy may wane more quickly, because more frequent seismic activity leads to a lot of broken-up rock that can absorb that energy.

In 2017, a powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck Iran’s mountainous western region near the Iraqi border, killing more ...

ATLANTA (AP) — A 4.1-magnitude earthquake in Tennessee woke up families and rattled homes as far away as Atlanta as it spread tremors across portions of the southern U.S. on Saturday morning. No ...

A 3.8 magnitude earthquake off of Maine rocked the New England coast from Augusta to Cape Cod on Monday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The earthquake occurred 6.8 miles off the ...