Yellowstone supervolcano has just been hit by more than 230 earthquakes in one week The eruption risk at Yellowstone remains low, but one of the recent earthquakes was the biggest to have hit since 2014.

Can Heavy Rain Really Cause Earthquakes? With the recent heavy rainfall in California, scientists expect new opportunities to study possible connections between weather and earthquakes.

Animated map shows where the largest earthquakes of the past 100 years have struck Some areas are much more prone to major earthquakes.

Chunks of Earth's Mantle Are 'Peeling Off' An odd phenomenon may explain why the Southeastern United States has experienced recent earthquakes, even though the region sits snugly in the middle of a tectonic plate and not at the edges, where all the ground-shaking action usually happens. This Read more ... seismicity — or relatively frequent earthquakes —

Where earthquakes happen, and why The massive earthquakes that hit Nepal on April 25th and May 12th—measuring magnitude 7.8 and 7.3 respectively—took place, as most large earthquakes do, on a...

Where earthquakes happen, and why THE massive earthquakes that hit Nepal on April 25th and May 12th—measuring magnitude 7.8 and 7.3 respectively—took place, as most large earthquakes do, on a...

Where earthquakes happen, and why THE massive earthquakes that hit Nepal on April 25th and May 12th—measuring magnitude 7.8 and 7.3 respectively—took place, as most large earthquakes do, on a...

Ancient Stories Provided An Early Warning About Potential Seattle Earthquakes Native American populations living near Seattle passed along warnings of earthquakes and tsunamis in the form of storytelling.

Why Is Oil And Gas Activity Causing Earthquakes? If you’ve been following the news lately, chances are you’ve heard about – or even felt – earthquakes in the central United States. During the past five years, there has been an unprecedented increase in earthquakes in the North American mid- Read more ... continent, a region previously considered one of the most…

Man-made earthquakes increasing in central and eastern U.S., study finds Photography & Video GRAPHICS Man-made earthquakes increasing in central and eastern U.S., study finds By Rong-Gong Lin II, Jon Schleuss and Thomas Suh Lauder contact the reporters Earthquakes Fracking Energy Resources For the first time, the U.S. Geo Read more ... logical Survey has unveiled a map of earthquakes t…