The Tohoku earthquake itself—a magnitude 9—did much less damage than it would have in other countries. ... Sieh pulls up a map on his computer. "This is the Manila Trench," he says, ...

A moderately strong, 5.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the Philippines on Tuesday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 12:05 a.m. Philippine ...

A moderately strong, 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck in Turkey on Tuesday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 2:17 a.m. Eastern European time about 3 miles ...

A 2.8-magnitude earthquake hit a section of northeastern Pennsylvania on Tuesday afternoon, according to the United States Geological Survey. The earthquake was reported 10 kilometers north ...

Maps show how thick the smoke is expected to be in the U.S. on Friday and Saturday. The wildfire smoke forecast for the U.S. on Friday, May 30, ...

When an earthquake creates sound waves that travel upward through the atmosphere, the upper parts of the waves move faster than the lower parts. This makes the wave front lean or tilt as it moves.

As the CIFFC’s map shows, some of the largest fires currently burning out of control are in central Canada, though there are several large fires northwest of Winnipeg, just over Montana’s ...

An earthquake of magnitude 4.2 on the Richter Scale hit Pakistan at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, in the Faisalabad division, according to the National Centre of Seismology.

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho Central Mountains had numerous earthquakes occur Friday, all in connection to the ongoing earthquake swarm in the area. Several of Friday’s quakes registered above ...

An earthquake of magnitude 4.2 hit Pakistan on Friday, according to the National Center for Seismology (NCS). The quake occurred at 1:37 pm IST at a depth of 180 km. “EQ of M: 4.2, On: 30/05 ...

Japan has been rocked by a 6.1 magnitude earthquake.. The tremor occurred off the cost of Kushiro, at a moderately shallow depth of 44km. The city of Kushiro, on Japan's northern island, was hit ...