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

Today at about 11:30am local time, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula in the ...

A magnitude 3.5 earthquake was reported Tuesday at 4:54 p.m. in Rialto, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

A powerful 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck Russia's Kuril Islands, located in the northern Pacific Ocean near the Kamchatka ...

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

Although they mostly go unnoticed by humans, small earthquakes occur much more frequently than large earthquakes, and knowing more about these tiny seismic events can help us better understand the ...

A minor earthquake occurred in New Jersey near Hillsdale, as per the US Geological Survey. The magnitude was 2.7. This event ...

Syrians search for victims and survivors at the rubble of a collapsed building following a deadly earthquake on Feb. 6, 2023. Syria's long-time enemy neighbor Israel said it will send relief.