Flipping through a photo album, Wayne Hendrickson recalls the day when he witnessed the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in North America ...

PM local time, with its epicenter located in the northern part of Nagano Prefecture. The Japan Meteorological Agency reported that the tremor originated at a depth of 13 kilometers and had a magnitude ...

People in Myanmar are trying to recover from the devastating earthquake three weeks ago, but fighting between the military and pro-democracy forces is holding up aid.

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake that rocked the bottom of the South Island struck in a seismic environment poorly understood by scientists – but which poses a major tsunami hazard. The 2.43pm quake hit ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5 struck Japan’s Nagano Prefecture on Thursday, with no reports of casualties, damage, or ...

At the Seismological Society of America's Annual Meeting, researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are faults?

Scientists found new evidence that Earth’s crust is peeling underneath the Sierra Nevada in California. The process might be ...

Myanmar's junta and a key opposition group have indicated they will extend a ceasefire to support more aid efforts after a ...