The last major Cascadia quake struck in 1700, and with an average recurrence interval of 550 years, so that means, the next ...

Pacific Northwest Seismic Network director Harold Tobin joined KUOW’s Kim Malcolm to discuss our recent shakeups, and how to ...

A numbered dial is then turned, which causes the platform to shake, simulating earthquakes of varying intensity. Most basic ...

Reports for three school districts in southeast Missouri indicate most school buildings aren't earthquake-resistant. Some ...

In the journal Chaos, researchers in Japan explore the likelihood that Earth’s climate, as affected by solar heat, plays a role in seismic activity. Using mathematical and computational methods, they ...

Tectonic plates move, causing strain energy to build up, and that energy eventually releases in the form of an earthquake. As ...

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.9 jolted through Los Angeles, mere hours after the Academy Awards concluded on Sunday night. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake ...

Even in Germany, where war guilt (“Kollektivschuld”) is still a powerful force, a party of the nationalist right opposing mass immigration has caused an electoral earthquake. Not only that ...

The National Center for Seismology is the nodal national agency for monitoring earthquake activity in the country. It maintains a seismological network spanning more than 160 stations, monitoring ...

So just how big was last Friday’s earthquake? Depending on what source ... from different seismic stations and does a very basic calculation to determine the magnitude.” ...

The earthquake reportedly happened at 3:45 a.m. at a depth of 25.3 kilometers, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The earthquake was recorded just southeast of Auburn along the Green ...