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 ...

A minor, 3.8-magnitude earthquake struck in the San Francisco Bay Area on Monday, followed by a larger 4.2 magnitude ...

Earthquake tremors were felt in Kolkata and other districts of West Bengal on Tuesday around 9:07 pm. According to initial reports, the epicentre of the earthquake was Myanmar, while tremors were also ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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, ...