Tibet and Nepal lie along a major geological fault line where the Indian tectonic plate converges with the Eurasian plate, ...

Earth's surface is covered by more than a dozen tectonic plates, and in subduction zones around the world—including the ...

The Sikkim-Darjeeling region was recently upgraded to the highest seismic risk zone VI. The epicentre of the first earthquake ...

Scientists at Stanford University have created the first global map of earthquakes occurring not in the Earth’s crust, but in ...

The largest earthquakes in Tibet, with magnitudes of 8.0 or similar, occur along strike-slip faults. Normal-faulting earthquakes are smaller in magnitude; in 2008, five normal-faulting earthquakes ...

Naypyidaw [Myanmar], February 7 (ANI): An earthquake of magnitude 3.9 struck Myanmar on Saturday, a statement by the National ...

The coldest air of the season is set to slide over the Philadelphia area this weekend, which could lead to frost quakes, ice quakes and lake quakes.

A magnitude 4.9 earthquake shook parts of Southern California on Jan. 19, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake struck about 12 miles northeast of Indio at around 5:56 p.m. PT. It caused ...

Earth's surface is covered by more than a dozen tectonic plates, and in subduction zones around the world—including the Japanese Islands—plates ...

Stanford University researchers have pulled back a curtain on a hidden part of Earth that rarely makes headlines. Their new ...

Geologists have spent decades trying to punch through Earth’s crust to reach the mantle, the vast rocky layer that makes up ...

Multiple reports highlight which cities in the U.S. face increased risk of earthquakes, with California topping the list.