A record-breaking deep earthquake registered in May 2025 offshore of Japan likely was not a tectonic event, but triggered by a mineralogical shift in Earth’s mantle.

A powerful 5.3 magnitude earthquake struck New Zealand’s North Island late Tuesday night local time, approximately 16 miles (10 kilometers) east of Eketāhuna in the Tararua district. The quake, which ...

Armed with measuring devices, groups of citizens are embracing science to monitor radioactive fallout — and regain control of ...

Experts say that while it has been quiet after Monday's quake, the risk of one or more aftershocks is not out of the question ...

January 26 marked the 325th anniversary since the last earthquake struck the Cascadia subduction zone. Centuries later, the ...

The state of Maine was hit by a rare 3.8 magnitude earthquake Monday morning, a tremor that could be felt across the New ...

Twenty years after an Indian Ocean tsunami killed thousands, Riley Kehoe recalls the terror she felt as a girl facing a ...

After initial reports of a magnitude of 4.1. – and then 3.9 – earthquake striking the area, it was later confirmed that a 3.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of New England on Monday morning ...

Alex de Steiguer was about to send an email from a house on Star Island, 7 miles off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire, when she heard what she thought was a big plane flying over. Outside, a flock ...

A 3.8-magnitude earthquake centered near the Maine coast rattled houses in northern New England on Monday and was felt by ...

BOSTON - An earthquake felt in Boston, Massachusetts Monday morning was centered in York Harbor, Maine according to the ...