New research uncovers a surprising clue in earthquake forecasting: tiny curved scratches on fault planes. These marks reveal ...

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

Learn more. I lived in California for a while where I taught kids about earthquakes at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps. Fault lines and tectonic plates were familiar terms to people out there ...

The post Second Earthquake in 3 Days Rattles Residents Along the East Coast—A Look at Major Cities Sitting on a Fault Line ...

A rare 3.8 magnitude earthquake shook Maine on Monday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The earthquake occurred at 10:22 a.m. and was reported at a depth of 13.2 km and centered 10 km ...

The US Geological Survey said this quake, whose epicenter was about 7 miles from southern Maine’s coastal town of York, was ...

Experts say that while it has been quiet after Monday's quake, the risk of one or more aftershocks is not out of the question ...

The earthquake ... this big fault zone, called the Norumbega Fault Zone, formed that was comparable to the San Andreas,” he said. It left behind lots of tiny fault lines that are now areas ...

In Southern California, the infamous San Andreas Fault has a major earthquake every 150-200 years. It has been 168 years since the last one in 1857. Today over 10 million people live in Los ...

Earthquakes in Maine, while fairly common, are usually small and do little or no damage. According to the Maine Geological ...

As more spacecraft are launched, the risk increases that uncontrolled space debris - those without active guidance - will ...