India, May 15 -- A powerful earthquake struck off the eastern coast of Japan on Friday evening, shaking several cities across ...

Pasadena, Calif.'s City Hall is seen Monday. Ryan Sun/AP When the 4.4-magnitude earthquake struck the Los Angeles area Monday afternoon, Angelenos reported a lengthy quake with significant shaking.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. About 55 earthquakes a day – 20,000 a year – are recorded by the National Earthquake Information Center. Most are tiny and barely ...

Materials scientists can now use insight from a very common mineral and well-established earthquake and avalanche statistics to quantify how hostile environmental interactions may impact the ...

What does “moment magnitude” mean, and how do scientists determine the strength of a rupture in the earth? By Henry Fountain Henry Fountain spent a quarter century covering science for The Times. He ...

Earthquakes can visibly and permanently crack the ground apart in dramatic and unpredictable surface fault rupture, but new research led by University of Michigan Engineering revealed that soil ...

FENTON, Mo. — An earthquake shook the ground far beneath Fenton, Missouri, early Friday morning, but it likely wasn't felt by many residents. The U.S. Geological Survey confirmed that a 2.4 magnitude ...

A strong earthquake struck off eastern Honshu on Friday evening, triggering alerts and briefly disrupting rail services in ...