The earthquake risk for Oklahoma and southern Kansas is expected to remain significant in 2017, threatening 3 million people with seismic events that can produce damaging shaking, according to a new U ...

On the morning of July 4, 2019, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck the Searles Valley in California’s Mojave Desert, with impacts felt across Southern California. About 34 hours later on July 5, the ...

In March 2018, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration "predicted" a major earthquake for Delhi, India, several weeks in advance. In March 2018, a false (and potentially harmful) viral ...

For example, earthquakes triggered by water will usually occur as fault slip on the crack (s)/fault (s) along which the fluids are propagating. That is, the two sides of the crack hosting the fluids ...

In the last couple weeks there have been claims on social media that someone is able to predict an upcoming earthquake, and some of you have even asked whether that is possible. Especially considering ...

Commentary: Even as we were rocked by the aftershocks of Friday's (some say 6.9, other 7.9) and Monday's tremor (5.9 on the Richter scale) and the tragedy of the deaths that resulted, it seems ...

On Saturday December 6, 2025 Alaska was rocked by a 7.0 magnitude quake. On average, about 55 earthquakes strike daily, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), totaling some 20,000 ...

South Carolina has been recognized as one of the most seismically active states in the country by the U.S. Geological Survey. That is why Georgetown County residents, schools and businesses are ...

Seismologists used a powerful supercomputer that incorporated data-infused and physics-based models to identify the link between the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes. On the morning of July 4, 2019, a ...