A string of earthquakes has hit Washington in recent weeks. Are they connected, and do they tell us anything about the odds ...

Earthquakes occur along fault lines between continental plates, where one plate is diving beneath another. Pressure builds between each plate, called fault stress. When this stress builds enough to ...

Enrique Diego Arango Arias, head of Cuba's National Seismological Service, announced that a noticeable tremor was detected by ...

This earthquake is larger than much of the recent seismic activity around western Washington, per initial reports.

This study, published in Earth and Planetary Physics, explores the subduction thermal state, slab metamorphism, and seismic ...

With Washington’s location along the Cascadia Subduction Zone and several active fault lines in the state, more than 1,000 earthquakes occur in the state each year, according to the Washington ...

Residents are urged to secure household items, maintain emergency kits, and participate in statewide drills such as the Great ...

The head of Cuba's Seismological Service, Enrique Diego Arango, issued a warning this Sunday emphasizing the critical need ...

Subduction zone earthquakes: This earthquake results from the tension of an oceanic plate slipping beneath a continental plate. When enough stress builds, the fault will rupture, releasing a ...

A 3.2-magnitude earthquake shook parts of east King County early Thursday afternoon, just hours after a similar quake in Bremerton.

The Cascadia Subduction Zone, capable of producing a 9.0 magnitude earthquake, last produced a major quake in 1700. The fault goes an average of 535 years between major quakes, according to the ...