The British Geographical Survey says the earthquake occurred at a shallow depth of 6.2 miles (10km).
Numerous New Jersey residents took to social media early Friday afternoon, reporting loud booms, rattling and shaking from an earthquake.
A re-examination of the 2015 Bonin Islands earthquake disproved earlier claims of a record-breaking deep aftershock in the lower mantle, identifying instead 14 aftershocks linked to a metastable olivine wedge in the upper mantle.
People as far away as Connecticut, Massachusetts and North Carolina reported they felt shaking Friday afternoon.
What was that? If you felt a rumble near the Rockland County/New Jersey border, it may have not been a large truck. It was an earthquake.
Morocco’s largest private museum has undergone a redesign that shows more of the permanent collection as well as reinforcements to protect it against any future damage
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6 struck southern Taiwan early Tuesday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, leaving 15 people with minor injuries.
A moderately strong, 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck in the Philippines on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 7:39 a.m. Philippine time about 4 miles southeast of Liloan,
A president pardoning more than 1,500 convicts on Day 1 and voiding part of the Constitution is a lot worse than just a "vibe shift."
Enduring folklore of “ghost lights” haunting a Lowcountry town in South Carolina may be more fact than myth, a new study suggests. However, the so-called “Summerville Light” isn’t the work of a ghost, according to Susan E. Hough, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey.
After a strong earthquake hit Taiwan on January 21, 2025, an old picture of a tilting building resurfaced in social media posts that falsely portrayed it as showing the aftermath. But authorities reported no major damage following the quake,