A powerful 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck northern Venezuela, its intensity captured in a viral video of water surging from ...

(Grant Faint/The Image Bank/Getty Images) When the magnitude 9.0 Tōhoku earthquake struck off the coast of Japan in 2011, its seismic shivers did more than ripple through the planet. At least one wave ...

A rare earthquake doublet struck northern Venezuela, with a 7.2 foreshock followed 39 seconds later by a magnitude 7.5 mainshock. The sequence killed at least 32 people, damaged Caracas and sent ...

Shallow earthquakes are generally considered more dangerous than deeper ones because seismic waves travel a shorter distance to the surface, resulting in stronger ground shaking and ...

Venezuela earthquakes: A look at the Richter scale’s limits, moment magnitude’s rise, and the 2nd-century Chinese device that ...

A magnitude 6.9 earthquake shook off the northeastern coast of Japan on Thursday morning. The earthquake happened at 7:30 a.m. on Thursday, Japan time. Just 30 minutes before, a m ...

A 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck Afghanistan, according to the National Centre for Seismology (NCS). There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.

Beijing [China], July 4 (ANI): An earthquake of magnitude 4.1 struck China on Saturday, according to the National Centre for ...

A 5.6 magnitude earthquake struck 225 km northeast of San Francisco on Wednesday morning, felt widely in Fort Bragg, with no ...

A 5.6 magnitude earthquake rattled parts of Northern California early Wednesday, according to the United States Geological ...

With Venezuela’s devastating doublet pushing the global count to nine earthquakes over magnitude 7 in just six months, there is an unusually high spike in major tectonic activity that far outpaces his ...