USGS reports five earthquakes on the morning of July 31 in the Rialto area, ranging from 2.5 to 4.3 in magnitude.

The quake off the waters off the coast of Russia's Kamchatka peninsula was also among the world's 10 largest earthquakes ...

FALL CITY, Wash. - A magnitude 2.8 earthquake struck near Fall City, Washington, early Thursday morning. According to the ...

Whenever a major earthquake strikes, the following question tends to come up: Is that sort of quake possible in the Bay Area?

Only a small portion of the earthquakes that occur can be felt. USGS estimates Southern California experiences about 10,000 earthquakes per year, with only 15 to 20 greater than magnitude 4.0.

Morris County became the epicenter of hysteria Monday as the series of quakes — ranging from a magnitude 0.7 to 2.0 — rocked ...

“It’s the most important mission area in USGS that they’re cutting,” said Scott Phillips, who retired from the agency in 2023 after more than 25 years as its Chesapeake Bay science ...

USGS excels at this sort of work: Its Bee Lab inventories all the nation’s native bees; the Bird Banding Lab and Breeding Bird Survey do much the same for birds, and their cutting-edge ...

The swarm at the second-most seismically active volcano in the northern Cascade Range started at 1:29 a.m. PT on July 8, the ...

Earthquakes along the Atlantic Seaboard are "uncommon but not unheard of" and tend to be felt by a broader swath of people than those that occur on the West Coast, according to USGS. That's ...

Other earthquakes of magnitudes 3.3, 3.2 and 2.7 were also recorded near Hayward, according to the USGS. It was not immediately clear if there was any damage in Hayward.