Earthquakes happen when the Earth’s crust suddenly shifts. The crust is broken into large pieces called tectonic plates, which fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. These plates only move a few ...

Each year, approximately 20,000 earthquakes occur globally. Even though most of these earthquakes are weak or occur in unpopulated areas, their destructive potential is clear. While richer nations ...

Earthquake myths have circulated in the state for decades. We looked into them.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. That was not your imagination. Two earthquakes in less than a week have rattled more than the ground across North Jersey. Whenever ...

More than 70 percent of Californians live within 30 miles of a major fault.

The most recent, a 1.2-magnitude tremor, hit about 2 ½ miles northeast of San Ramon at 4:05 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 23. Getty Images/iStockphoto A swarm of small earthquakes has been rattling a Bay Area ...

Earthquakes in the American state of Utah, the Soultz-sous-Forêts region of France or in the Dutch province of Groningen should not be able to occur even if the subsurface has been exploited for ...

The U.S. Geological Survey was still trying to unravel how an alert was sent Thursday morning for a nonexistent 5.9 earthquake outside Dayton, Nevada. A quake of that size wouldn't be implausible.

An earthquake swarm is a series of small quakes that “may occur in a region for months without a major earthquake,” according to Britannica.. Getty Images/iStockphoto A swarm of a half-dozen ...