The first North Carolina-based earthquake this year hit Friday morning -- and then another one hit Saturday morning in the ...

It’s the slip-sliding motion of plate boundaries that triggers many earthquakes. California's San Andreas Fault, where the North American and Pacific tectonic plates grind past each other with a ...

While not a household name like the San Andreas, the Elsinore fault is part of a larger seismic zone that experts fear and believe more people should know about.

Fault lines are fractures or breaks in the Earth's crust where tectonic plates move past each other, often resulting in earthquakes ... found at divergent plate boundaries, such as mid-ocean ...

A new study has identified three states in the US could be hit by an earthquake and mega-tsunami in a handful of years.

In Noble County, most of the recent earthquakes were small enough not to be felt by people who live there. But a few crossed ...

A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck the Pacific island nation of Tonga, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said on Wednesday. The earthquake of magnitude 6.4 hit Tonga Islands at 0415GMT with a depth of ...

This process, called plate tectonics, is responsible for earthquakes, volcanoes, ocean ridges and vast mountain ranges on Earth's surface. We know that other rocky bodies, such as Venus ...

A 3.2-magnitude earthquake was felt in General Nakar town in Quezon province on Tuesday morning, May 27, the Philippine ...

A 6.3 magnitude earthquake has struck the city of Bengkulu in Indonesia this evening - with those near the epicentre warned ...

An earthquake measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale struck early Monday, three kilometers east of the village of Prokopi on Evia ...

constructive and conservative plate boundaries and how the plates move at each of these, with earthquakes occurring as a result of plate boundary movement. In 2010 a major earthquake caused ...