A lurch in the Earth’s tectonic plates can wreak havoc at any time – as we’ve just seen in Vanuatu. How do scientists measure ...
Last night’s strong and shallow 5.3 quake was felt by more than 23,000 people: mostly across the lower North Island. A ...
Alex de Steiguer was about to send an email from a house on Star Island, 7 miles off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire, when she heard what she thought was a big plane flying over. Outside, a flock ...
while doing so I started to suspect it might be an earthquake. Glad it was ‘only’ that!” “There are small faults around us. They are not major plates that cause big earthquakes.
“This was a rather small magnitude earthquake,” USGS research geologist Alex Hatem said. “I know it might sound a little odd, because I know a lot of people felt it, but in terms of how big ...
Taupō residents were feeling nervous today after a “swarm” of more than 50 earthquakes were recorded in the area overnight.
Poverty, job loss and high insurance costs have led to a lack of earthquake insurance in New Madrid, Missouri — a town with a ...
To better understand when a big earthquake is coming, there are earthquake monitoring stations across the state in remote ...
A magnitude 3.9 earthquake was measured near Norris Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National Park on Tuesday evening. It's the ...