A long-lost slab of Earth’s crust may be pulling away the bottom of the oldest part of North America, scientists say ...

A magnitude 3.8 earthquake struck western Washington ... a region shaped by the tectonic interaction between the Juan de Fuca and North American plates. The Juan de Fuca Plate is slowly being ...

Latest California Earthquakes. Please wait a moment for map to load. Use controls or ... according to the USGS. In North America, only Alaska records more quakes per year than California.

A 4.7 magnitude earthquake struck near Anchorage, Alaska just after midnight on Tuesday as residents have been warned of ...

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It is 1,100 miles (1,800 km) north-east of New Zealand and situated on the Pacific Ring of Fire, a tectonic region of earthquakes and volcanoes. The low-lying island nation was devastated by a ...

Earthquakes in Bossier Parish are on the rise! Find out why residents are talking about the ground shaking beneath their feet ...

In 1638, an earthquake in what is now New Hampshire and Plymouth, Massachusetts, left colonists stumbling from the strong ...

A strong, 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck in the North Pacific Ocean near Ecuador on Friday, according to the United States ...

Although it might not feel like earthquake country to a Californian, for example, northeastern North America experiences regular seismic activity and has hosted large earthquakes in the past.

The research has been published in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. The study states that it is very difficult to distinguish between tremors caused by earthquakes and those ...