Earthquakes occur along fault lines between continental plates, where one plate is diving beneath another. Pressure builds between each plate, called fault stress. When this stress builds enough to ...

South Carolina has high seismic activity despite not being on a plate boundary. Scientists still don't know the answer for ...

Multiple tremors were recorded by the USGS over the past week, including one which struck as the Oscars ceremony was underway.

The shakes have left the 'Big One' on many Greater Victorian minds – a megaquake on the boundary between the Juan de Fuca and ...

The latest seismic activity was felt as far north as Roswell ... it puts pressure on fault lines, resulting in more earthquakes. 'The practice of deep injection of oil field wastewater, known ...

Two more earthquakes struck less than six hours earlier slightly farther off the coast of Petrolia, roughly 250 miles north of the Hayward ... aptly named Hayward fault line, which USGS notes ...

However, looking at the broader North ... faults, or old structures that may not have done anything for a very long period of time.” Tectonic plates map. Earthquakes are common along the red ...