The USGS described the earthquake as "notable," confirming that it may have been felt by residents in Sand Point and nearby ...

Seismic activity shook parts of the Big Country early Sunday, with a series of earthquakes peaking at a 3.7 magnitude. The ...

Officials in Hawaii issued a tsunami watch on Saturday evening as a series of earthquakes, including a 7.4 magnitude one, struck off the Russian coast, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Earth's continents may look fixed on a globe, but they've been drifting, splitting and reforming over billions of years—and they still are. Our new study reveals fresh evidence of rhythmic pulses of ...

The volcano last erupted in 2015, producing 450-foot-thick lava flows, but because of its remote location, it is not a threat ...

Yellowstone National Park wildlife is not fleeing the park, despite viral videos suggesting a mass migration due to a possible Yellowstone supervolcano eruption. The National Park Service (NPS) has ...

A worldwide Android smartphone-based earthquake detection and early warning system can detect seismic activity in real time.

The United States and Japan concluded a weeklong disaster-response exercise that simulated a magnitude 7 earthquake, the ...

In a new study, published July 18 in the high impact journal Science Advances, Western engineering professor Bing Li and his ...

A powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck Alaska on Wednesday, unleashing seismic shockwaves that raced through the Earth's ...

Wednesday’s magnitude 7.3 earthquake off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands chain struck in a region that has experienced a handful of powerful quakes within the last five years ...

The quake that struck Alaska’s southern coast on Wednesday, July 16 is part of a larger sequence that may continue to unfold ...