Naypyitaw: An earthquake of magnitude 4.0 struck Myanmar on Saturday, as reported by the National Center of Seismology (NCS).

a scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program. She pointed to footage from a Taiwan maternity ward during a 7.4-magnitude quake last year, when an alert sent a trio of ...

A new paper explains how the properties of fault rocks and geologic events that took place over a billion years ago could ...

Aftershocks continue after 6.1 quake with tourist sites still closed - Seismologist Gerasimos Papadopoulos said there would ...

The United States Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program, said on Friday that fatalities could be between 10,000 and 100,000 people, and the economic impact could be as high as 70% of ...

according to the U.S. Geological Survey’s Earthquake Hazards Program. Strike-slip earthquakes occur when two blocks of tectonic crust are trying to slide sideways past each other; the blocks of ...

Some of the recorded quakes don’t reach the surface. “The best guide to earthquake hazards in (this specific) seismic zone is the earthquakes themselves,” USGS stated in a summary of the ...

Washington state has seen several recent earthquakes ranging from small tremors near Tacoma and Vashon Island to larger quakes off the west coast. This list of stories illustrates the region's seismic ...

She is a member and current chair of the federal Advisory Committee for Earthquake Hazard Reduction (ACEHR). Her contributions to this article reflect her professional expertise and do not reflect ...

helping communities better understand and respond to earthquake hazards. Why did you choose to study at Scripps? A faculty member at my university recommended it as the place where cutting-edge ...

The IEMA recommends preparing to be self-sufficient for at least 72 hours, ideally two weeks, in the case of an earthquake. The best way to do this is to organize a safety preparedness kit ...

"There is a significant earthquake hazard in the southeastern U.S., " particularly around the New Madrid and East Tennessee seismic zones," Sobieszczyk said. There have been 15 other earthquakes ...