Thursday's non-quake highlighted the need for better earthquake-warning tools. Three western states have a system in place, ...

A notification about a magnitude-5.9 earthquake in western Nevada Thursday morning was a false alert, the USGS said. The ...

MIAMI -- A 5.4 magnitude earthquake hit Jamaica on Monday, prompting people to flee buildings amid heavy shaking. The earthquake was located about 2 miles west-northwest of Hope Bay, according to the ...

Learn how faults beneath the Earth's surface can heal themselves after slowly releasing stress from the movement of tectonic plates.

How strong was the earthquake in Morocco? The earthquake was a magnitude 6.8, which is rare for western Morocco, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Twenty minutes after the main earthquake, a ...

The public could have days or months of warning about a major earthquake through identification of prior low-level tectonic unrest over large areas, according to research by a University of Alaska ...

A network of sensors that can provide crucial seconds notice of a possibly serious earthquake is now up and running in Quebec ...

A 5.1-magnitude earthquake struck near the Midland-Odessa Metropolitan area Monday evening, briefly rattling parts of North Texas. The U.S. Geolo g ical Survey reported that the quake happened in ...

A rare strong earthquake struck near Midland, Texas, on Monday evening, triggering more than 1,000 reports of shaking, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The temblor, initially measured at magnitude ...