About 55 earthquakes a day – 20,000 a year – are recorded by the National Earthquake Information Center. Most are tiny and barely noticed by people living where they happen. But some are strong enough ...

Haiti on Saturday was struck by a powerful earthquake that by one measure was actually stronger than the devastating 2010 quake that turned much of the capital city of Port-au-Prince into rubble. The ...

A California Geological Survey map released earlier this year depicts just how intense and damaging the shaking from future earthquakes will be across the state, revealing where the threat is most ...

After an earthquake, it is crucial in the early phase of disaster management to obtain a rapid assessment of the severity of the impact on the affected population in order to be able to initiate ...

There are a number of ways to measure the magnitude of an earthquake. Most scales are based on the amplitude of seismic waves recorded on seismometers. These scales account for the distance between ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit Northern California on Thursday, causing a tsunami warning and several aftershocks. The tsunami warning -- which impacted at least 5.3 million ...

Three low-intensity earthquakes within 24 hours hit In Pakistan's Karachi on Monday, with the first one being reported at around 1 am. As per the Pakistan Meteorological Department, the tremors were ...

VANCOUVER, B.C. (KOMO) — The North Pacific by British Columbia's Vancouver Island was rattled by a series of earthquakes Thursday morning, the largest quake measured as 6.4 magnitude. According to the ...

A deep spatiotemporal neural network trained on more than 36,000 earthquakes offers a new way of quickly predicting ground shaking intensity once an earthquake is underway, researchers report. A deep ...