JACKSON, Tenn. (May 12, 2014) -- Emergency management officials moved pictures and signs, much like game pieces on a large board game, on a 24-by-24 foot floor map of the New Madrid seismic zone May 8 ...

A researcher points to seismic data displayed on a computer screen in 2008 in St. Louis. A 4.0 magnitude earthquake in southeast Missouri last November was a wake-up call for those living in the New ...

State geologists released maps this week that for the first time identify six seismic hazard zones in Ventura County and are part of a statewide project to hold all builders accountable to the same ...

The New Madrid seismic zone, which stretches from Arkansas to Indiana, has produced at least three clusters of large earthquakes in the last 1,200 years, the most recent in 1811-12. Such quakes can be ...

EVANSTON, Ill. — New results about the temperatures of rock deep below the New Madrid Seismic Zone in the central United States shed light on the puzzling questions of why large earthquakes happened ...

Proposed updates to the seismic maps covering Santa Monica and the nearby area will have little impact on the way local government regulates construction in geohazard zones. State regulators issued ...

Look out, South Carolina, Illinois, and Missouri. Although California is well known for earthquakes, new federal government maps extend the high-risk zones for temblors across much more of the country ...

A new map released by the California Geological Survey shows seismic hazard zones for certain areas of Southern California, specifically liquefaction and landslide zones. The maps for San Diego County ...

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake originating near Dhaka, Bangladesh, caused noticeable tremors across Kolkata and Northeast India.