Gov't considers creating detailed earthquake risk map after 2026 A 4.8 magnitude earthquake rattled the southwestern county of Buan in North Jeolla Province, Wednesday, prompting residents to ...

Other sections of this part of the country are prone to earthquakes, but can expect fewer quakes of smaller magnitude. Below is a map showing the risk of damage by earthquakes for the continental ...

Additional information collected may also prompt U.S.G.S. scientists to update the shake-severity maps. An aftershock is usually a smaller earthquake that follows a larger one in the same general ...

SEATTLE — The threat of an earthquake at any given moment in Washington ... megathrust faults and often don’t produce a tsunami risk. The most common fault in the Northwest is the Crustal.

Those could be some of the effects of a magnitude 7.2 earthquake in Vancouver, according to a new report scheduled to be ...

4:34 Is B.C. seeing increased earthquake activity? It also identified five building types, many built before 1990, which accounted for 80 per cent of the risk, including concrete high-rise ...

A new report says up to 1,350 people would die or suffer severe injuries and nearly 6,100 privately owned buildings would be heavily damaged.