Earthquake news, features and articles

More than 55 earthquakes have struck off the Oregon coast, but the swarm is not likely to trigger any danger to those on land.

Researchers have detected the deepest earthquake ever, 467 miles below the Earth's surface.

Lake Monticello in South Carolina is causing a series of small earthquakes, the third time in its history that the man-made reservoir has created swarms of seismic activity.

Extensive damage and high casualties are being reported.

Archaeologists have found evidence of an earthquake that hit the City of David in Jerusalem about 2,800 years ago and that could be a major event described in the Hebrew Bible.

At least 1,008 earthquakes swarmed Yellowstone National Park in July 2021, the most in a single month since June 2017.

A new deep-learning approach to predict earthquake shaking could lead to better warnings of where and when shaking will occur.

An earthquake of approximately magnitude 9 in 1700 in Cascadia could have instead been three or four slightly smaller, but still devastating, quakes.

A swarm of more than 20,000 earthquakes has rattled southern Iceland this week, and geologists suspect a volcanic eruption is on the way.

The earthquake caused the collapse of nearly 20 buildings in the city of Izmir. Search and rescue efforts are underway beneath the rubble.