When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a landscape with incredible geology. She hears a lot of the same suggestions: ...

Researchers have discovered cratonic thinning occurring beneath North America, driven by the remnants of the Farallon Plate.

The earthquake that rocked Myanmar is compounding the humanitarian crisis caused by a bloody civil war. More than 2,700 ...

The death toll from the earthquake that hit Myanmar has risen to more than 1,700 as more bodies have been pulled from the ...

The quake struck Friday, followed by several aftershocks. It toppled buildings, buckled roads and caused bridges to collapse.

At a plate boundary, two plates move relative to each other, and this movement can cause earthquakes. The San Andreas fault – which stretches for roughly 750 miles in California – is the boundary ...

A small earthquake struck western New Jersey early Friday morning ... The quake appears to have happened along the Ramapo Fault Line, near where the 4.8-magnitude quake happened last April.

The earthquake was reported near Gladstone at ... “Especially after larger quakes, there is bound to be settling of the various faults as the ground shifts here and there until a new equilibrium ...

Both New Zealand's North and South Islands have been rocked by an earthquake. The magnitude 4.8 quake struck at 8.24am local time (6.24am AEDT) at a depth of 9km and was centered 10km south of ...

ONCE YOU GET BEYOND 5.5... THAT'S WHEN STRUCTURAL DAMAGE CAN HAPPEN Update 1:57 p.m.: The USGS has reported a second overnight earthquake, also in Bryan County.It was recorded at 5:33 a.m. and was 3 ...

MITCHELL COUNTY — Three small earthquakes shook north central Kansas over the past 24-hours. Just before 8:30p.m. Wednesday, the Kansas Geological Survey reported a 2.3 magnitude quake northeast ...

Video / NZ Herald, Getty A strong earthquake shook central New Zealand this morning. The quake, which struck at 8.24am, was centred 10km south of Seddon and 9km deep. The 4.8 magnitude shake was ...