Researchers are combining data on earthquake shaking intensity, crowdsourced traffic data from the Waze navigation app and police crash reports to find out if car crashes are more likely during ...

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) received over 5,500 reports from Mexico to North Florida of people feeling shaking ...

A new study by Northwestern University researchers and coworkers explains a puzzling problem with maps of future earthquake shaking used to design earthquake-resistant buildings. Although ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit Northern California on Thursday, causing a tsunami warning and several aftershocks. The tsunami warning -- which impacted at least 5.3 million people ...

When a magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck northern New Jersey's Tewksbury township on April 5, it triggered widespread alarm as the biggest event since 1884. Based on existing models, it should have done ...

Jim Freeman was resting at his home at the Cactus Island Nursery in northern Williston when the shaking began around 2 p.m.

A new study by Northwestern University researchers and coworkers explains a puzzling problem with maps of future earthquake shaking used to design earthquake-resistant buildings. The research was ...

Peak ground velocity from a magnitude 4.8 earthquake under Tewksbury township, N.J., (gold star) on April 5, 2024. Shaking was relatively weak at the epicenter, but spread unexpectedly far, ...

A research team studied earthquake hazard maps from five countries and found that all the maps seemed to overpredict the historically observed earthquake shaking intensities. In analyzing the possible ...