Annually, seismologists clock about 900,000 earthquakes worldwide, but the vast majority happen along plate boundaries ... small to moderate quakes surprise the East Coast in states such as ...

Last April, a magnitude 7.4 quake hit the island’s mountainous eastern coast of ... The strongest earthquake in 25 years was followed by hundreds of aftershocks. Taiwan lies along the Pacific ...

A relatively strong earthquake with an epicenter off the east coast of Chiba Prefecture struck before sunrise on March 1, rattling many from their sleep in the predawn hour. The quake at around ...

A preliminary magnitude 2.6 earthquake struck near the Malibu coast on Sunday evening. It occurred at about 11:05 p.m. about 10 miles northwest of the city, according to the United States ...

A large earthquake shook Kyushu, Japan, just after 9 p.m. local time Monday night, triggering a tsunami advisory for Japan's southeast coast. The quake was centered just offshore of Kyushu, about 7 ...

The Earthquake Research Committee ... a subduction mega thrust quake along the Nankai Trough, an 800km undersea gully running parallel to Japan’s Pacific coast. The trench is where the ...