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 ...

Two slow-motion earthquakes took several weeks to travel 20 miles along the fault. Each happened in places where geologic ...

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 ...

The earthquake’s rupture behavior was unique. Instead of sending most of its energy straight up to the surface, as typically ...

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.

A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake that struck Myanmar on March 28, 2025, became a widespread catastrophe due to the ...

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 ...