The strength of an earthquake is based on the logarithmic Richter scale. April 2023's magnitude 4.8 earthquake was 251 times bigger than Friday's magnitude 2.4 earth ...

As more than 15,000 homes burned across the greater Los Angeles area the last two weeks, the all-too-familiar fear of whether a similar urban firestorm could blaze through the South Bay was at the ...

N​early 75% of the country is at risk for a potentially damaging earthquake, according to a recently updated USGS map.

Researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health have assembled a national database with millions of multi-day ...

SNOQUALMIE, Wash. — An earthquake struck near Snoqualmie Monday afternoon, according to the United States Geological Survey ...

Ethiopia's Afar and Oromia regions have been hit by several earthquakes and tremors since the beginning of 2025. The ...

Geoscience Australia has unveiled its updated National Seismic Hazard Assessment (NSHA), the first revision since 2018. The ...

Building more dams in the Himalayas is not sustainable, said C P Rajendran, a geologist at India’s National Institute of Advanced Studies, citing ecological concerns and the earthquake risk from the ...

Risk models identified the Palisades — along with Silicon Valley’s Los Altos Hills and the Moraga and Orinda area east of San Francisco — because of problematic commonalities: the highest value homes, ...

The Zoo’s detailed earthquake protocols were executed and it was determined that there was no risk to the safety of animals, staff, and visitors." ...

Tibet Quake Highlights Earthquake Risk for Dams on Roof of the World By Colleen Howe BEIJING (Reuters) -Tibet's earthquake of magnitude 6.8 that killed 126 and damaged four water reservoirs this ...