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.

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

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

An example of a MyShake earthquake alert on a phone. The app, powered by data from the U.S. Geological Survey, can warn residents in California, Oregon and Washington of a possible nearby earthquake.

An 8.8 magnitude undersea earthquake near Russia's Kamchatka Peninsulasent tremors across the Pacific early Wednesday, ...

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 ...

An earthquake off the east coast of Russia has led to tsunami alerts across a number of countries in Asia and the Americas.

Another earthquake — though smaller — was reported near Jacksonville in 1900, sitting at a magnitude of 3.5. USGS's Earthquake Map shows the Jacksonville quake as a blue dot.