An area near Petersville, Alaska, was hit with a 4.6 earthquake on Wednesday, according to the United States Geological Survey. Newsweek reached out to the USGS's Earthquake Hazards Program via email ...

Oregonians on the coast who signed up for the state’s emergency notification system, OR-Alert, got a text to stay away from ...

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The giant Columbia River reservoir behind the Grand Coulee Dam covers almost 125 square miles, as it reaches nearly to the ...

Fifteen minutes. That was the margin between a titanic 8.8 magnitude earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula and the five ...

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An earthquake on 5.9 magnitude has struck Taiwan's northeastern coast on Thursday, August 7, as per United States Geological ...