Earthquake News

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Vehicles as tsunami traps highlighted by the debris piled up at more than 12m elevation at Poloa, American Samoa.

"In a sense, this is a modern retelling of Noah's Ark," says director Roland Emmerich of 2012.

Fourteen of the aftershocks reached magnitude 3 or stronger, but most of the others were small, according to Kuo Kai-wen , director of the Central Weather Bureau s Seismological Center.

A small earthquake has shaken part of West Tennessee. The U.S. Geological Survey's initial report said a quake with a magnitude of 3.3 shook the area around Dyersburg early Friday.

Fortunately, new research instead shows that most of these earthquakes are aftershocks of big earthquakes in the New Madrid seismic zone that struck the Midwest almost 200 years ago.

Courtesy Linda A. Cicero / Stanford News Service -- To accompany ssjm1102fisher column, depicted is an exterior view of the Hanna House at Stanford University, which was designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

Mid-continent earthquakes along the Mississippi and elsewhere might just be long-lived aftershocks of big quakes, not fresh events, geophysicists suggest in a new study.

A strong, 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit central Taiwan Thursday, the government said, with initial reports stating that one person had suffered minor injuries.

BEIJING: Two moderate earthquakes hit northwest China's Shaanxi and Qinghai Provinces Thursday, said China's national seismological network.

Why earthquakes might happen in unexpected places. Jane Qiu There were precious few warning signs before the 2008 Sichuan earthquake hit.

A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck off the Oregon Coast early this morning. The moderate quake was recorded at 4:38 about 121 miles from Bandon and 294 miles from Portland, according to the U.S. Geological Survey .

A house is destroyed in a qauke at Mahua Village of Pingchuan Town in Binchuan County, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Nov.

An earthquake hit off the coast of Humboldt County Tuesday evening, but was apparently unnoticed by area residents.

A moderate earthquake has shaken southern Iran early Wednesday, injuring 80 people and cutting power and telephone lines.

San Diego County supervisors on Tuesday approved an agreement to turn over downtown courthouse properties to the state in exchange for a new court facility and improvements to outlying complexes.

The U.S. Geological Survey says an earthquake with a 3.8 magnitude has been reported in Southern California near the Mexico border.

An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter Scale jolted the Ionian Sea on Tuesday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

The U.S. Geological Survey reports three small earthquakes within hours of each other in East Tennessee, including a magnitude 3.0 earthquake that shook enough for people to notice Sunday.

Greek authorities say an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.7 has struck in western Greece.