At the Bedretto Underground Laboratory, scientists are inducing tiny earthquakes along a natural fault zone to learn what can ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. According to Kloosterboer, everyone should have three emergency kits ready in case of an earthquake. We should also take steps to ...

A shake alert went out over the U.S. Geological Survey's early warning system on Dec. 4, warning that a 5.9 earthquake near Carson City in western Nevada could produce heavy shaking in the region. But ...

A phone in the San Francisco Bay Area receives a false alarm about a magnitude 5.9 earthquake that was purported to hit near Carson City, Nev., just after 8 a.m. Thursday. No earthquake actually ...

Scientists at Stanford have unveiled the first-ever global map of rare earthquakes that rumble deep within Earth’s mantle rather than its crust. Long debated and notoriously difficult to confirm, ...

A 4.9 magnitude earthquake struck near Edgefield, Louisiana, close to U.S. Highway 71, at approximately 5:30 a.m. Thursday, marking the second largest earthquake in Louisiana state history.

As temblors shook Dubai and people fled high rises, Ben Millington found out how safe we truly are from a seismic disaster as buildings reach even further into the sky. Hundreds of people evacuated ...