New USGS government maps extend earthquake hazard zones nationwide, including some surprising states. The 5.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Virginia on August 24, 2011, damaged monuments like ...

The new study, published in the journal Earthquake Spectra, is based on an earthquake hazards map of the lower 48 states released by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in 2014.

At the Tokai earthquake preparedness center in Shizuoka, a map pinpoints 6,449 landslide locations. Another map shows where 58,402 houses could burn in quake-related fires. It's all remarkably ...

Here’s the 11th piece from my BBC column On Friday, 11 March 2011, an earthquake struck the oceans near Tohoku, a region on Japan’s east coast. With a magnitude of 9.0, it was among the five ...

Twenty-three hundred years ago, hordes of mice, snakes, and insects fled the Greek city of Helike on the Gulf of Corinth (map). "After these creatures departed, an earthquake occurred in the night ...

Even—or perhaps especially—from a vast distance, the scale of destruction and despair in the capital, Port-au-Prince, after the Haiti earthquake is graphically clear (Haiti map). Seen via ...

To create those maps, researchers deploy seismometers on the surface—little machines that sense and chronicle all sorts of vibrations, including earthquakes. Seismic waves are a bit like music.

Thousands of temblors occur every day. Here’s what you need to know about where they usually take place and how they're measured. Thousands of earthquakes occur every day. Most are too minor to ...