Japan is well known for its large earthquakes, but not all regions show the same patterns of earthquake activity. One way to ...

Two major earthquakes occurred in Venezeula on June 24, the first a magnitude 7.2 and the second a magnitude 7.5 a minute later. It is estimated that thousands of people have died and several thousand ...

Not all earthquake faults behave the same. Some stick and snap, causing earthquakes. Others move slowly over time. For years, the leading explanation for slow-moving faults has been that high-pressure ...

Earthquakes are strong and sudden movements of the Earth's surface caused by shifts in the Earth's crust. They can change the shape of land, destroy buildings, and affect the lives of people in many ...

On Friday 23 August, a magnitude 4.8 earthquake near Muswellbrook, New South Wales, shook the state. The earthquake caused local damage and Geoscience Australia received more than 3,600 felt reports, ...

A shake alert went out over the U.S. Geological Survey's early warning system on Dec. 4, warning that a 5.9 earthquake near Carson City in western Nevada could produce heavy shaking in the region. But ...