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Seafloor sensors caught a rare slow quake in action. It hints at how Earth's stress is quietly released. For the first time, ...
While earthquakes do occur on occasion in Florida, what you felt last night wasn't an earthquake, at least according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
At least 78 people have died after heavy rainfall caused flash flooding in parts of central Texas on Friday, officials said.
The United States Geological Survey has confirmed a weekend earthquake near the South Carolina-Georgia state line.
The number and size of Texas quakes increased dramatically around 2010 when well injection became the common disposal method.
NPR has compiled a timeline of when local, state and federal officials posted warnings on social media as well as the ...
Two slow-motion earthquakes took several weeks to travel 20 miles along the fault. Each happened in places where geologic ...
More than 900 earthquakes have shaken a remote and sparsely populated island chain in southern Japan over two weeks, leaving ...
Typhoon Danas lashed southern Taiwan with record winds and strong rain early on Monday (July 7), killing two people and ...
At least 24 people have died after torrential downpours flooded the southern US state of Texas. Authorities are continuing ...
In a scientific first, researchers have tracked the elusive motion of a rare variety of earthquake during a seismic event ...
They captured the event using advanced borehole sensors installed deep beneath the ocean floor in a region known as the ...