A 6.5 magnitude earthquake rocked the island nation of Papua New Guinea on Monday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The quake struck at 10:31 a.m. UTC (5:31 a.m. ET) in the city of Goroka, the USGS reported.

A 6.5 magnitude earthquake has struck Papua New Guinea, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said, about 26 miles northeast of Goroka. The quake hit at a depth of around 68 miles, the USGS said, at 10:31 a.m. UTC (5:31 a.m. ET).

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

A swarm of at least a dozen earthquakes reaching up to magnitude 3.9 rattled San Ramon near San Francisco, the U.S. Geological Survey reports.

A swarm of earthquakes rattled the Bay Area on the evening of Friday, December 19. The earthquakes occurred over a 30-minute span, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. There have been no reports of damage or casualties, and no tsunami warnings have been issued as of reporting.

On December 6, 2025, the St. Elias mountain range was hit by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake on the Canadian Yukon/ Alaska border.

Belief in “earthquake weather" is common, especially in California, but scientists are clear that there is no such thing.

The U.S. Geological Survey reported a magnitude 3.2 earthquake at 10 a.m. near Basin Butte, about 10 miles northwest of Stanley. The quake struck at a depth of about 6 miles. Central Idaho is a frequent site of earthquakes, including a magnitude 6.5 quake in 2020 near Ruffneck Peak.