Nearly 75% of the U.S., including Alaska and Hawaii, could experience a damaging earthquake sometime within the next century, USGS study finds.

Geologists are putting their skills to the test studying hidden threats that lie beneath the feet of thousands of Kansas ...

A recent study by Home Gnome, a marketplace for all home services, has highlighted the locations in the United States that are most vulnerable to earthquakes, combining seismic hazard data with ...

An earthquake map from the USGS shows the states hit by earthquakes on Friday morning. Alaska also was hit. U.S. Geological Survey. When looking at earthquake data over the past 30 days, next to ...

Tuesday's 2.8 magnitude earthquake was strong enough to be noticed by locals despite Pennsylvania not being known for seismic activity.

Recent earthquake retrofit ordinances are defined as those passed since 2015. An earlier version of this page included buildings in the city of Los Angeles. However, the data provided by the city ...

What The USGS Earthquake Map Tells Us. ... The map's release came almost exactly on the 30th anniversary of the deadly Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles, the most recent major quake to hit the U.S.

This new USGS map shows where damaging earthquakes are most likely in the U.S. The new USGS National Seismic Hazard Model includes a few key changes since the last map was released in 2018 ...

Hawaii also faces potential earthquakes due to recent volcanic eruptions and seismic unrest. There hasn't been a comprehensive assessment of Hawaii's earthquake risk published since 1998, and the ...

A Northwestern University research team studied earthquake hazard maps from five countries and found that all the maps seemed to overpredict the historically observed earthquake shaking ...

On the map, the color red identifies places with the highest earthquake shaking risk — a 95% chance an earthquake of magnitude 5 or higher will occur in the next 100 years and bring slight or ...