A moderately strong, 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck in Japan on Tuesday, according to the United States Geological Survey.

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A strong, 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck in the Philippine Sea on Wednesday, according to the United States Geological ...

Earthquakes happen daily, sometimes with devastating consequences, yet predicting them remains out of reach. What scientists ...

Findings based on mini “lab quakes” in a controlled setting could help researchers assess the likelihood of future quakes in ...

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When the house started shaking, Mandy Evenson picked up her 7-year-old son and dashed outside. “It was a really hard, sharp shake,” she said. “It felt like I was in a snow globe — like somebody ...

For more than a month, the San Francisco Bay Area has been subjected to a seemingly ceaseless stampede of earthquakes — the latest in a series of seismic swarms that have rattled windows and raised ...

Two earthquakes of a 7.0 or greater magnitude have struck within days of each other in Alaska and Japan, prompting worries another big temblor could be on the way. The first quake hit in Alaska on Dec ...