TEXAS, USA — This summer, Texas has registered over 1,000 earthquakes. A few of the stronger ones – Magnitude 4 and above – made headlines in late July. The large number can seem staggering ...

When a 4.4-magnitude earthquake rattled Los Angeles on Aug.13, it didn’t come as a complete surprise to everybody. About a million Californians got an early alert on their phones that a quake was ...

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HERMLEIGH – The Texas agency overseeing the oil and gas industry said inspectors are examining saltwater disposal wells within a 2.5-mile stretch where a bevy of earthquakes have stunned West ...

A study questions the reliability of using turbidite layers to trace the Cascadia subduction zone's seismic history, ...

Seismologists have connected wastewater disposal to earthquake activity in Texas, and SMU's research marks an effort to better predict where these earthquakes may hit and how strong they might be.

In recent weeks, North Texans felt the aftershock of several earthquakes originating near Hermleigh in Scurry County, about 250 miles west of downtown Dallas. The cause of these quakes has yet to ...

A study by scientists at The University of Texas at Austin and collaborators is calling into question the reliability of the ...

An earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale was recorded off the coast of Portugal early Monday morning and was felt in ...

A year after a deadly earthquake struck Morocco's High Atlas mountains, reconstruction efforts are slowly moving forward.

But a newly resurfaced engineering study reveals another problem: Major structural deficiencies could turn the aging building ...

While it may seem like there’s a spike in Oklahoma earthquakes this year, the data shows that’s more feeling than fact.