Residents fled outside as a powerful earthquake shook buildings in Turkey. Footage shows locals gathered in the streets as ...

A 6.4 magnitude earthquake has struck northern Chile, causing minor infrastructure damage and cutting power to over 20,000 people.

SPOKANE, Wash. — Earthquakes are not uncommon in Washington, but many people think of them as a westside thing. The most concerning fault line, the Cascadia Subduction Zone, runs along the west ...

The Ring of Fire is a horseshoe-shaped band of fault lines that circles the Pacific ... stretches from the southern tip of South America, up and along the west coast of North America, across ...

Scientists warn if a 1,000-ft ‘mega-tsunami’ spurs from an active fault line it could wipe part of America off the map - Alaska, Hawaii and areas along the mainland West Coast would be at risk if an ...

When people think of natural disasters in the Mid-South ... disaster— earthquakes, and the next big one could come sooner than you think. We live on the New Madrid Fault line, which is the ...

A magnitude-5.2 earthquake occurred about 2.5 miles south Julian ... The Elsinore Fault Zone, a major fault line in Southern California and part of the San Andreas Fault system, is in this ...

The Mid-South was hit by seven earthquakes ... In recent days, what’s called a “swarm of earthquakes” rattled an area near the New Madrid Fault Line in Missouri. Seven earthquakes shook ...

Now those fault lines form weak zones where stress in the earth can build and eventually break into earthquakes. Why these fault lines are seismically active, while neighboring ones aren’t, is less ...

The town of New Madrid, which sits in the southeast corner of Missouri an hour away from Cape Girardeau, is home to fault lines where hundreds of unnoticeable earthquakes happen yearly ...