Lori Dengler is an emeritus professor of geology at Cal Poly Humboldt, an expert in tsunami and earthquake hazards. Questions or comments about this column, or want a free copy of the preparedness ...

The Record Breaking Chilean Earthquake 5, commonly referred to as the Valdivia earthquake or Great Chilean earthquake. It ...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) confirmed Thursday that alerts of a 5.9 magnitude earthquake in Nevada were a false alarm. On its website, the USGS said that its ShakeAlert early-warning system sent ...

Citing Japan Meteorological Agency, Associated Press reported that the quake occurred off the east coast of Aomori prefecture, in the north of Honshu, the main Japanese island, at a depth of 20 ...

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

The earthquake struck around 26 miles northeast of the town of Goroka in the country's Eastern Highlands province.

A shake alert went out over the U.S. Geological Survey's early warning system on Dec. 4, warning that a 5.9 earthquake near Carson City in western Nevada could produce heavy shaking in the region. But ...

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 ...

For more than a month, the Bay Area has been subjected to a seemingly ceaseless stampede of earthquakes, rattling windows and raising fears across California.

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 ...