Earthquakes happen when the Earth’s crust suddenly shifts. The crust is broken into large pieces called tectonic plates, which fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. These plates only move a few ...

Earthquakes in the American state of Utah, the Soultz-sous-Forêts region of France or in the Dutch province of Groningen should not be able to occur even if the subsurface has been exploited for ...

When an earthquake shook homes in a small Lancashire village, those living there felt as though "the roof was falling in". The tremor in the north-west of England on Wednesday was so powerful, ...

The most recent, a 1.2-magnitude tremor, hit about 2 ½ miles northeast of San Ramon at 4:05 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 23. Getty Images/iStockphoto A swarm of small earthquakes has been rattling a Bay Area ...

The U.S. Geological Survey was still trying to unravel how an alert was sent Thursday morning for a nonexistent 5.9 earthquake outside Dayton, Nevada. A quake of that size wouldn't be implausible.