A moderately strong, 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck in Ethiopia on Sunday, according to the United States Geological Survey.

F or decades, geologists have been puzzled by the Denali Fault, a sprawling 620-mile geological feature in Alaska.This massive strike-slip fault system, where tectonic plates slide past each other ...

An earthquake of magnitude 3.5 jolted Tibet on Saturday. According to the National Centre for Seismology (NCS), the ...

Rabat - A team of researchers from Morocco, Italy, and Germany has identified the geological fault likely responsible for the ...

South Carolina has high seismic activity despite not being on a plate boundary. Scientists still don't know the answer for ...

A string of earthquakes has hit Washington in recent weeks. Are they connected, and do they tell us anything about the odds ...

Believed to be triggered by a millions-year-old geological fault, Townsville experienced its largest earthquake in recorded ...

Geological Society of America Field Guide 8, p. 113-134. Bailey, C. M., Francis, B. E., and Fahrney, E. E. 2004. Strain and vorticity analysis of transpressional high-strain zones from the Virginia ...

according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor followed three earlier small earthquakes — a magnitude 2.7 that struck near the Hayward fault at 5:03 a.m., followed by a magnitude 3.3 at 11 ...