Residents of Delhi-NCR and several parts of northern India were jolted awake early Monday morning as strong tremors shook high-rise buildin.

Delhites experienced a magnitude 4.0 earthquake early Monday morning, with its epicenter near Dhaula Kuan. Despite no immediate damage or injuries, residents evacuated their homes in panic.

and when the plate's margin finally slips to release energy, an earthquake results. Generally, shallow earthquakes, originating five or 10 kilometres below the surface, tend to cause more damage ...

The Alberta Energy Regulator says ... more than two kilometres underground to release natural gas trapped in rock formations. It is a known cause of earthquakes, including four detected in ...

The UN nuclear watchdog chief visited Japan's stricken Fukushima plant on Wednesday, the day after Tokyo approved an energy ...

TOKYO—The UN nuclear watchdog chief arrives in Japan on Tuesday for a trip that will include his first visit to storage facilities for vast quantities of ...

The Fukushima plant on Japan's northeast coast was hit by a huge earthquake-triggered tsunami in March ... This is "to ...

The Richter scale, used to measure earthquake magnitude, follows a logarithmic scale. Each whole-number increase represents ten times stronger shaking and about 32 times more energy release. For ...

These colliding plates flex, storing energy like a spring, and when the plate's margin finally slip to release energy, an earthquake results. In the past, five earthquakes of Richer Magnitude 5.5 to 6 ...

According to Michigan Technological University, “Earthquakes are usually caused when the underground rock suddenly breaks and there is rapid motion along a fault. This sudden release of energy causes ...

Authorities are keeping a close watch on the situation.” Earthquakes occur due to the sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust, typically caused by tectonic plate movements. These movements ...

The pressure from these colliding plates stores energy, which is released as earthquakes when the stress overcomes the resistance. Since 1720, five earthquakes with magnitudes between 5.5 and 6.7 have ...