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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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

Oil and gas operations at Portland’s CEI Hub are growing. So is the risk of a massive spill if the next "big one" hits.

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 ...

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An operation to send an extendable robot into one of three damaged reactors at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to bring ...

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

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.5 jolted Southern California on Saturday, and its impact was felt by millions of people across the region. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, ...