Experts from UNH explain how rare the 3.8 magnitude earthquake was and the likelihood of significant aftershocks.

A record-breaking deep earthquake registered in May 2015 offshore of Japan likely was not a tectonic event but triggered by a ...

A 3.8-magnitude earthquake struck near York Harbor, Maine, early Monday, sending tremors as far south as Boston and as far ...

"The same physical process will take place in both cases — the explosive spring of the bent plates will release in the same ...

Scientists have solved the mystery of how earthquakes can occur 420 miles deep inside Earth, where extreme pressure and heat ...

Will it happen again? Could there be aftershocks ... “We would call this earthquake an ‘intra-plate’ earthquake as it occurred in the center of the tectonic plate rather than at the edge ...

Volcanoes and earthquakes are both natural phenomena driven by the dynamic processes that shape Earth’s interior and surface.

A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has rattled southern Texas in the vicinity of San Antonio, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) ...

Earthquakes form when two tectonic plates moving against one another get ... "The fracture process doesn’t happen all at once. First, a crack needs to be created," Fineberg said.

Maine is not typically associated with significant seismic activity, making Monday's earthquake all the more unusual. Most ...

A 3.8 magnitude earthquake shook parts of New England on Monday morning, according to the United States Geological Survey.