About 55 earthquakes a day – 20,000 a year – are recorded by the National Earthquake Information Center. Most are tiny and barely noticed by people living where they happen. But some are strong enough ...

(WHTM) — April 26 is the birthday of Seismologist Charles Richter, co-creator with Beno Gutenberg of the Richter Scale, which measures the intensity of earthquakes. In the early 1930s, the field of ...

The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.2 miles and had an estimated intensity of VI on the modified Mercalli intensity scale.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) crowdsourcing platform Did You Feel It? (DYFI) rapidly transforms people's earthquake ...

PM, a minor earthquake measuring a magnitude of 3.4 struck the southern region of Hokkaido, Japan. The tremor was shallow, with no tsunami threat reported, ensuring that residents were not in ...

VANCOUVER, B.C. (KOMO) — The North Pacific by British Columbia's Vancouver Island was rattled by a series of earthquakes Thursday morning, the largest quake measured as 6.4 magnitude. According to the ...

SOMONAUK - At 2:53 A.M. a 3.4 magnitude earthquake, originating about 1.2 miles northwest from the Village of Somonauk, shook communities in south Dekalb county. On their earthquake intensity scale, ...

A 4.9 magnitude earthquake shook Montana and parts of Canada near Malmstrom Air Force Base. Residents felt moderate shaking, ...