The larger, 6.8-magnitude quake happened at 11:49 a.m. Cuba time about 24 miles south of Bartolomé Masó, Cuba, data from the ...

A magnitude 4.4 earthquake rumbled underneath Los Angeles on Monday, less than a week after a bigger one jolted much of Southern California. The U.S. Geological Survey placed the epicenter of ...

With earthquakes, tsunamis and flooding as potential threats, the city has a complex web of disasters to prepare for.

What precisely is fueling the sequence of shakers is not entirely clear, and officials warn that prior seismic activity does not necessarily mean more powerful temblors are imminent. But the ...

All temblors in the lower 5 or greater on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 occurring within the region were called a possible aftershock of the 2011 quake. In general, it is difficult to ...

Most temblors are too small for humans to feel, but every so often a whopper will rock our planet. The majority of earthquakes occur near the boundaries of tectonic plates—like the mighty San ...

But it was the culmination of a series of smaller temblors that began occurring in April. And while innocuous, it could bode ill for a region that remains particularly susceptible to the damaging ...

Yamaoka said that area has long been prone to seismic activity, but the magnitude-9.0 Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 has increased the likelihood of major temblors occurring there.

The number of school buildings without quake-resistance decreased by 60 to 135. By prefecture, Ehime saw the lowest ...

What precisely is fueling the sequence of shakers is not entirely clear, and officials warn that prior seismic activity does not necessarily mean more powerful temblors are imminent. But the ...