An earthquake map from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) shows that minor earthquakes hit nine states on Friday morning. California is perhaps the state most known for earthquakes, as the Golden State ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The United States Geological Survey warned that nearly 75% of the U.S. could face potentially damaging earthquakes and intense ...

Slow-motion earthquakes, as you might guess from the name, involve the release of pent-up geological energy over the course of days or weeks rather than minutes – and scientists have now recorded some ...

A minor, 3.8-magnitude earthquake struck in Southern California on Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 12:09 p.m. Pacific time about 15 miles south of ...

Undergraduate Geographic Information Science (GIS) student, Laurence Magenga, is using his course project to improve responses to natural hazards. Magenga knew that GIS was for him when he realized he ...

Stanford University researchers have pulled back a curtain on a hidden part of Earth that rarely makes headlines. Their new work maps a strange kind of earthquake that starts deep below the crust, ...