Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stanford researchers mapped rare mantle earthquakes worldwide, revealing clusters near the Himalayas and the Bering Strait.

Note: Map shows the area with a shake intensity of 3 or greater, which U.S.G.S. defines as “weak,” though the earthquake may ...

Stanford researchers have created the first-ever global map of a rare earthquake type that occurs not in Earth's crust but in our planet's mantle, the layer sandwiched between the thin crust and Earth ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — An earthquake was recorded at about 12:35 universal coordinated time (UTC) or about 6:30 a.m. CT Friday near Artesian, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS ...

An earthquake and 15 aftershocks have struck a remote stretch of southern Nevada near the highly restricted Area 51 military installation, United States Geological Survey (USGS) research geologist ...

A minor, 3.3-magnitude earthquake struck in the North Pacific Ocean on Tuesday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 12:15 p.m. Pacific time about 9 miles ...

Several major metropolitan areas are in considerable danger of disastrous “earthquake shaking” from upcoming geological events, according to a new statewide shaking-intensity map. The California ...

When you think of earthquakes in the U.S., Texas is probably not the first state that comes to mind.

A new interactive earthquake map reveals here the danger in Croatia is the greatest, with southern Croatia in quite the ...