Roughly 60% of the city’s buildings were constructed before 1940, well before the city updated its building codes in 1995 to ...

Since the 1960s, seismologists have stopped using the famous Richter scale, preferring to use a moment magnitude scale, which ...

For example, after a 4.8 magnitude earthquake hit New Jersey in April, people in the affected areas reported symptoms including dizziness, vertigo, nausea and just generally feeling a bit off.

Officials are investigating reports of a possible earthquake in New Jersey, the New York City Office of Emergency Management ...

An earthquake of magnitude 8.8 - one of the world's strongest-struck Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula early on ...

The quake that struck Alaska’s southern coast on Wednesday, July 16 is part of a larger sequence that may continue to unfold in destructive ways.

This post was updated Oct. 11 at 12:36 a.m. Every resident of Southern California lives within 10 miles of an active earthquake fault. The numerous faults make the region highly susceptible to ...

Seattle’s unreinforced brick buildings are a disaster waiting to happen — and the cash to fix them isn’t there.

The moment seismologists got word that a magnitude 8.8 earthquake had struck near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, they felt an ...

In late July 2025, following an 8.8-magnitude earthquake ( archived) off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula that triggered tsunami ...

Google’s Android Earthquake Alerts program is a globe-spanning earthquake early-warning system that uses billions of phone ...