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

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

A Portuguese explorer famously named the Pacific Ocean the "Mar Pacifico" or Peaceful Sea, unaware of the Pacific Ring of ...

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An earthquake in Bergen County shook parts of New Jersey and New York on Saturday night, the second time in less than two weeks that an earthquake struck in the Garden State. The quake registering 3.0 ...

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

Was that an earthquake you just felt or merely a big truck rumbling by? You don't have to wonder thanks to the U.S. Geological Survey.

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

Russia’s magnitude 8.8 earthquake spawned serious tsunami warnings, but waves have been moderate so far. Here’s the geological reason why ...

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

An earthquake of magnitude 8.8 has the same energy as 9000-14300 atomic bombs like Hiroshima, which is approximately 9 x ...

After years of relying on modders, Elden Ring fans finally got an official online co-op experience with Elden Ring Nightreign ...