UMATILLA COUNTY — An an event Tuesday morning, Jan. 28, near Umatilla registered as a magnitude 2.0 earthquake, according to the United States Geological Survey. The probable cause, however, was ...

Many people in the Monadnock Region reported feeling a 3.8 magnitude earthquake the U.S. Geological Survey says struck off the coast of Maine on Monday morning.

In remembrance of the 325th anniversary of the last time the Cascadia Subduction Zone lost its grip, on Jan. 26, 1700, wreaking havoc on the Oregon Coast, a wave-height rerun about the “Eight of ...

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Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Beneath California's Sierra Nevada, evidence suggests the lithosphere is undergoing foundering, where the denser lower lithosphere detaches and sinks into the mantle ...

A 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit Taiwan on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said, injuring 27 people, triggering landslides and causing ceilings of homes to cave in according to local authorities ...

Credit: Dicklyon/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 The processes that form continental crust from the denser basaltic rocks of the upper mantle may make the lower lithosphere denser than the ...

A devastating earthquake in China's remote Tibet region killed at least 126 people and damaged thousands of buildings on Tuesday, state media reported, with tremors also felt in neighbouring Nepal ...

Alberth Elis is set to resume his career in Honduras, 11 months after sustaining a serious head injury during a match in France. One person has died and thousands remain in shelters after ...

Scientists have mapped one of the most hazardous spots on the globe in unprecedented detail: a 600-mile geologic boundary just off the Pacific Northwest coast. Along this fraught stretch, called ...