A rare 2.9 magnitude earthquake was recorded Wednesday, United States Geological Survey officials said. The earthquake happened in Lake Michigan around 2:38 p.m. USGS officials said the location of ...

An earthquake that hit off Chicago's North Shore on Wednesday left residents rattled as more than 170 people reported feeling ...

A sudden earthquake jolted three US states, triggering mass alerts, widespread panic, and renewed scrutiny of the nation's ...

The medical system in Venezuela was already under stress even before the earthquake. Now, medications and doctors are scarce but the need for all kinds of medical care is increasing.

Los Angeles could be edging closer to “the big one,” with new research finding earthquake stress has reached its highest ...

A series of unlucky factors — two earthquakes in rapid succession, a fault that ruptured toward Caracas, soft ground and the shallow depth of the earthquake — combined to make the Venezuela ...

A new physics-based model suggests Southern California’s Cajon Pass fault junction is critically stressed and could influence whether a future major earthquake spreads across two fault systems. Credit ...

A research group led by Satoshi Ide from the University of Tokyo has demonstrated that classic earthquake generation theory does not hold in areas where the angle at which a tectonic plate dips under ...

Officials at the Cascadia Region Earthquake Science Center said the magnitude 5.5 offshore earthquake near Bandon is no cause ...

The Blanco Fracture Zone is an active fault system spanning approximately 200 miles along the Juan de Fuca Plate off the ...

A magnitude 5.5 earthquake under the Pacific Ocean struck near the Oregon Coast at 4:35 a.m. Monday. The earthquake happened ...

The latest jolt comes amid a busy stretch for the Pacific Ring of Fire, where a series of earthquakes has struck over the ...