It’s the slip-sliding motion of plate boundaries that triggers many earthquakes. California's San Andreas Fault, where the North American and Pacific tectonic plates grind past each other with a ...

It's commonly assumed that earthquakes occur only near the boundaries of tectonic plates, and roughly 90% of earthquakes do happen in these areas. These boundaries include, for example, the San ...

Fortunately, the vast majority of them are magnitude 2.5 or less, and great earthquakes (magnitude 8.0 or more) only happen about once every 5 to 10 years. Most of these great quakes occur along the ...

Zanesville is approximately130 miles from Georgetown. Earthquakes are caused by movement in plate tectonics and are measured ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

“In the eastern U.S., New Madrid is the most active, and there is actually one in eastern Canada that is almost as active as New Madrid. We are number 3 in East Tennessee in terms of the frequency of ...

An earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale jolted Islamabad, Peshawar and multiple districts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Wednesday. The tremors were felt in other areas including ...

Crustal earthquakes are caused by the ground being pushed or pulled apart by the movement of the plate boundary. While these faults don’t have the potential to produce a mega earthquake ...

FLORIDA, USA — A large 6.8 magnitude earthquake took place off the southeastern coast of Cuba Sunday around 11:49 a.m., ...

A 5.3 magnitude earthquake shook the federal capital, Islamabad, and several areas of neighbouring Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, ...