A new kind of earthquake has been detected in western Canada, one that shakes the ground slower and longer than typical ...

Scientists detected a slow-motion earthquake off Japan, offering rare insight into hidden faults and tsunami risks beneath ...

A 3.3-magnitude earthquake hit Northern California Monday evening near Los Banos, about 30 miles from San Jose. No damage ...

Two slow-motion earthquakes took several weeks to travel 20 miles along the fault. Each happened in places where geologic ...

The earthquake’s rupture behavior was unique. Instead of sending most of its energy straight up to the surface, as typically ...

This little-known earthquake fault has been quiet. But it can unleash devastation across SoCal. ... The longer the rupture goes in an earthquake, the more total seismic energy is produced.

Experts say Karachi is surrounded by several active and dormant fault lines, can’t withstand even a moderate intensity tremor ...

A 3.9 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal on Monday at a shallow depth of 14km, according to the National Center for Seismology ...

Two successive quakes jolted Andaman Sea on Monday. The latest earthquake measuring 4.7 magnitude on the Richter scale jolted ...

In other areas, including the western U.S., the earthquake energy may wane more quickly, because more frequent seismic activity leads to a lot of broken-up rock that can absorb that energy.

ATLANTA (AP) — A 4.1-magnitude earthquake in Tennessee woke up families and rattled homes as far away as Atlanta as it spread tremors across portions of the southern U.S. on Saturday morning. No ...

An earthquake of magnitude 4.2 struck Nepal and it occurred at a shallow depth of 10 kilometers. The country is highly ...