One of the most active regions in the world is the Pacific Ring of Fire. According to the USGS, this region is where the ...

They were two of the strongest quakes to hit Venezuela in more than a century. Quakes of 7.0 to 7.9 magnitude are considered ...

The deadly earthquakes that have struck Venezuela’s northern coast were an event known as a “doublet.” The U.S.

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 ...

Japan experiences around 1,500 earthquakes that are strong enough to be felt every year, a staggering figure that would seem ...

Earthquakes near Mendocino Triple Junction shake waters off Northern California with no tsunami or major damage.

The country was hit hard by a pair of quakes that happened in quick succession and were likely driven by stress being ...

Two major earthquakes struck Venezuela on Wednesday evening. CNN is tracking developments, in maps and charts.

Receiver function images of the lithospheric structure with seismicity and topography. (Miller et al., The Seismic Record, ...

India, July 3 -- A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck off the coast of Russia on Friday, according to preliminary seismic data.

Earth’s lithosphere is partitioned into tectonic plates whose relative movements generate stress accumulation along plate boundaries and faults. Interactions ranging from subduction and continental ...