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 include ...

Modern stressors can still trigger tremors and quakes in dormant faults Earthquakes can be felt further from their epicenter on the East Coast than out west due to the crust being older and more ...

The probability of a “megaquake” happening in Japan within the next 30 years has risen to over 80 per cent, the government’s earthquake investigation panel found. A megaquake is defined as an ...