The first earthquake struck while the town was still asleep. Around 2:00 am on Dec. 16, 1811, New Madrid—a small frontier settlement of 400 people on land now located in Missouri—was jolted awake.

In 1638, an earthquake in what is now New Hampshire had Plymouth, Massachusetts colonists stumbling from the strong shaking and water sloshing out of the pots used by Native Americans to cook a midday ...

Groundbreaking Discovery in Offshore Sediment Cores Two fault systems on North America's West Coast – the Cascadia subduction ...

The quake came during a cluster that saw over a dozen other earthquakes reported over a 24-hour period, the USGS map shows.

Climate journalist Emma Pattee has been worried about the so-called big one—an off-the-charts earthquake—hitting her town in Portland, Ore., for some time now. She’s not alone: scientists estimate at ...

American Samoa is a United States territory which comprises the easternmost islands of a volcanic island chain formed by the Samoan hotspot in the South Pacific Ocean. Its small islands are the tops ...

In the U.S., this preparation hinges in large part on the expertise of scientists and engineers in federal agencies who develop earthquake hazard models and contribute to the creation of building ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — When natural disasters strike, many refugees come to the United States for a better life. More than a quarter of Haitian immigrants in America today came after a powerful ...