Lancashire residents say the 3.3-magnitude tremor felt like "an underground explosion", but there are no reports of damage.

A magnitude 4.7 earthquake struck off the southern coast of Mexico, centered about 50 miles south-southwest of La Esperanza.

An earthquake with a high likelihood of striking beneath Tokyo and nearby areas in the coming decades could kill 18,000 people and cause 83 trillion yen ($535 billion) in economic damage in the worst-case scenario, according to a Japanese draft government estimate.

An urgent alert of a 5.9-magnitude earthquake in the Reno, Nevada, area sparked panic among Californians — but it turned out the temblor never happened. STAY UP TO DATE WITH THE LATEST NEWS BY SUBSCRIBING TO MORNING REPORT NEWSLETTER The alert,

HUMBOLDT COUNTY, CA - the U.S. Geological Survey reported that a preliminary 3.4 magnitude quake rattled close to Fortuna Friday afternoon.

Experts say the earthquake in Lancashire was hard to track as it came from deep underground.

In a recent Science study, researchers used 15 kilometers of telecom fiber near Mendocino, Calif., to record the region’s biggest earthquake in five years—capturing in fine detail how the magnitude 7 rupture started, slowed and sped up, accelerating even faster than the speed of sound.

A 4.1-magnitude quake has hit the Costa del Sol. The tremor stuck near Fuengirola, Malaga, at a depth of 78 kilometres, at 10.38am this morning (9.38am GMT), according to the National Geographic Institute.