Nearly 75% of the country is at risk for a potentially damaging earthquake in the next 100 years, according to a recently updated map from the U.S. Geological Survey. The map is the first to ...

"We are a long way off from predicting natural earthquakes, but understanding the physics of labquakes and how they evolve allows us to better understand the mechanics of real earthquakes," said ...

The magnitude 7.9 Bonin Islands earthquake sequence in May 2015, which ruptured deep within the earth near the base of the upper mantle, did not include an aftershock that extended to record ...

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These two earthquakes came in 1934 and 1950. The map below shows some larger earthquakes in the region from 1908 to 2025. The Eurasian-Indian plate boundary cuts across the northernmost parts of ...

A 2.8 magnitude earthquake occurred at about 5:30 p.m. local time on Tuesday, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), with the epicenter ... Survey map of where the 2.8 magnitude ...

Just before 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, a 2.8 magnitude earthquake ... exact location of the epicenter was one kilometer north-northeast of the town of Wyndham, the USGS reported. But their maps ...

Two of Japan's nuclear power plants were rattled on Monday when a magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck southwest Japan, prompting a tsunami advisory for parts of the region. This map shows the ...

A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck southwestern Japan late ... although the damage they cause varies according to their location and the depth below the Earth's surface at which they strike.

Additional information collected about the earthquake may also prompt U.S.G.S. scientists to update the shake-severity map. An aftershock is usually a smaller earthquake that follows a larger one ...

CONCORD, Calif. – The San Francisco Bay Area was met with another earthquake on Sunday morning, the second quake to affect the area since Friday. The earthquake happened at about 8:50 a.m. PT. The ...