Maps: Earthquakes Shake Eastern Taiwan By William B. Davis , Madison Dong , Judson Jones , John Keefe and Bea Malsky Updated April 26, 2024 at 2:58 a.m. E.T.

In Israel, small earthquakes are a near constant in the north – a possible warning of things to come; for the Middle East, the threat is haunting - Click the link for more details.

The fault system that ruptured in Monday's 7.8 earthquake in Turkey also ruptured in a quake nearly 1,000 years ago — and was followed by a sequence of quakes to the south for nearly a century.

Officials on Thursday released new draft maps showing the locations of earthquake faults in Santa Monica, Beverly Hills and the Westside, raising the prospect of development restrictions in areas ...

A moderately strong, 5.1-magnitude earthquake struck in Iran on Friday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 9:19 p.m. Iran time about 22 miles southwest of ...

After some of the most devastating earthquakes to decimate the Middle East and wider world in recent years, some may fear quakes and seismic shocks are becoming a more common occurrence around the ...

Devastating Earthquake May Threaten Middle East's Near Future, Geologist Predicts. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 4, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2007 / 10 / 071003142432.htm ...

The Middle East resembles nothing so much as an earthquake zone with multiple fault lines. This week, fighting increased sharply along one of those lines, Israel’s border with Lebanon, and more ...

In the era before satellites, geologists would map earthquake faults by walking the lines of rupture. It was a laborious process that naturally also missed a lot of detail.