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TAIPEI, Taiwan—A powerful earthquake struck Taiwan on Monday evening, shaking buildings in the capital and across much of the northern part of the island. There were no immediate reports of ...

An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 struck near the coast of Port-Olry, Vanuatu, triggering a tsunami warning for nearby ...

A tsunami warning was issued after an 8.1 magnitude earthquake hit near the coast of New Zealand on ...

A 4.2 magnitude earthquake shook Southern California early on Thursday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), ...

A 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck Central California around 10:45 a.m. on Wednesday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey ...

A 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck Idaho on Tuesday afternoon, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The earthquake ...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) confirmed Tuesday’s 7.7 magnitude earthquake that shook the Caribbean Sea near Jamaica and ...

A magnitude 5.1 quake struck Fars province in southern Iran on Monday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey ...

A number of earthquakes were reported off the shore of Southern California on June 5. The U.S. Geological ...

A moderate, 6.1 magnitude earthquake hit off the main Japanese island of Honshu on April 11, said the ...

A magnitude-5.6 earthquake has hit near the coast of central Peru, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The earthquake, ...

Several strong earthquakes hit off the coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, on Oct. 22. The strongest quake ...

A 6.3 magnitude earthquake, a 6.4 magnitude earthquake, and more than a dozen aftershocks hit near New Caledonia, ...

An earthquake hit near Anchorage, Alaska, on the night of Oct. 14, according to the U.S. Geological Survey ...

A 3.6 magnitude earthquake struck Riverside County, California, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) on Sept. 30. ...

QUITO—A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck central Ecuador on Sept. 6, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said, injuring one ...

The volcano, which has been disrupting life on Hawaii’s Big Island since May 4 might finally be slowing ...

America has a problem with drinking water pollution. It is not the pollution of old—massive amounts of industrial ...

A 5.8-magnitude earthquake hit northern Japan and a 6.1 quake hit Ecuador on April 20. Both countries are ...

"These shallow earthquakes are more rare. They cause a lot of damage."

Quakes in Oklahoma have become hundreds of times more frequent in recent years

I was in southern Thailand after the 2004 tsunami. I went to Phang Nga to understand the fate ...

LA Mayor Eric Garcetti released a report in partnership with the US Geological Survey (USGS) on Monday detailing ...

Following the magnitude 6.0 earthquake in Napa, California on Sunday, people in the rest of the state are ...

The process of generating energy from coal requires a staggering amount of water, a recent report says.

A three-tiered land cover map was recently released by the United States Geological Society (USGS), and it is ...