Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

A major, 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck in the Caribbean Sea on Saturday and triggered a tsunami advisory in Puerto Rico and ...

A significant earthquake struck in the United States on Wednesday, according to reports. The United States has been hit by ...

A rare earthquake struck a United States city before Super Bowl 59 on Sunday morning. The United States has been home to ...

according to the United States Geological Survey. The latest quake took place just after 3 p.m. local time, according to USGS. Data provided by USGS showed the latest earthquake was 6.2 miles deep.

Yellowstone National Park was rocked by an earthquake last night, sparking fears its supervolcano could be awakening. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) detected a magnitude 3.9 quake ...

Just before 8 a.m. Sunday morning, a 2.0-magnitude earthquake rumbled about 6 miles off the coast of York Harbor, Maine, according to the United States Geological Survey. Earthquakes with ...

"Earthquakes, particularly in the Central and Eastern United States (CEUS), are relatively infrequent and difficult to predict," Oliver S. Boyd, a research geophysicist with the USGS, tells ...

The earthquake took place at about 10:22 a.m. on Monday and was centered about six miles (10 kilometers) southeast of York Harbor in southern Maine, the United States Geological Survey reported.

If you think you’re safe from earthquakes because you don’t live ... Across the central United States highways and bridges would be damaged and in some places collapse. Some structures ...

A minor, 3.8-magnitude earthquake struck in the Gulf of Maine on Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 10:22 a.m. Eastern about 10 miles east of ...