At 4.1 magnitude near Greenback, the May 10 quake was large for our area. Experts look back on the last earthquakes to ...

The United States has dealt with a flurry of earthquakes this month, raising concerns about "The Big One." Last week, the ...

California has dozens of earthquakes every day. Most are below 3.0 magnitude, so small that they aren’t felt.

A new paper explains how the properties of fault rocks and geologic events that took place over a billion years ago could ...

Minor quakes can disrupt natural tectonic patterns deep underground and change stress landscape, new study finds.

Nashville is about 175 miles from a 4.1 magnitude earthquake that occurred in East Tennessee near Greenback on May 10. The earthquake was described as "notable" by U.S. Geological Survey and was felt ...

According to Brian Blake, the executive director of the Central United States Earthquake Consortium, the earthquake that ...

An earthquake near Greenback, Tennessee, shook East Tennessee early Saturday morning. It was the largest quake in the region ...

A 3.3 earthquake occurred near Lerna, Illinois at 11:43 p.m. on July 6, 2024, with over 100 reports of shaking, and is ...

seismic zone is the earthquakes themselves,” USGS stated in a summary of the 2018 Decatur tremor. Pratt also noted that faults tend to be in valleys where rocks erode more easily. But when the ...

When faults where tectonic plates meet slip fast past each other, earthquakes result. Tremors are produced when this happens slowly, usually tens of miles underground—often in subduction zones, where ...