School principal Yoshiro Tobo is one of the few people left on his remote Japanese island, where the earth is constantly ...

While earthquakes do occur on occasion in Florida, what you felt last night wasn't an earthquake, at least according to the U ...

Scientists are warning that a 100-foot, Doomsday-style tsunami is primed to hit the US West Coast at any moment. Yet ...

Any earthquake that has a magnitude of 6 or higher is considered a major event, and is also strong enough to cause significant loss of life and property. Most earthquakes occur when two blocks ...

Generally speaking, there is a 1 in 20 chance any earthquake in California will be followed by one that’s larger, said Susan Hough, a seismologist with the U.S. Geological Survey.

Earthquakes can be like Jell-O. A simple, yet often used analogy is that if you’re sitting in a valley or basin, it acts like a bowl of gelatin and it will shake more than surrounding rock. B… ...

Earthquakes can be like Jell-O. A simple, yet often used analogy is that if you’re sitting in a valley or basin it acts like a bowl of Jell-O and it will shake more than surrounding rock. But ...

What to Know. Earthquakes are the result of rapid motion along a fault line. In Friday’s case, it occurred along the Ramapo Fault that runs down the center of the northern part of the state.

In recent years, the region has experienced several magnitude 4 earthquakes. In 2022, a 4.1-magnitude earthquake originated ...