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 ...