About 55 earthquakes a day – 20,000 a year – are recorded by the National Earthquake Information Center. Most are tiny and barely noticed by people living where they happen. But some are strong enough to shake things off walls, cause cracks in ...

VANCOUVER, B.C. (KOMO) — The North Pacific by British Columbia's Vancouver Island was rattled by a series of earthquakes Thursday morning, the largest quake measured as 6.4 magnitude. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the first quake hit southwest ...

Magnitude 4.8 earthquake strikes Pangasinan on 10 January 2026. Intensity IV shaking in Bani; tremor felt across northern Luzon. No damage reported.

A shallow earthquake struck 9 miles (14 km) north of Susanville, California in the United States. The quake had a very shallow depth of 3 km, and shallow earthquakes cause stronger shaking and more noticeable effects.

SAN FRANCISCO -- A magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit Northern California on Thursday, causing a tsunami warning and several aftershocks. The tsunami warning -- which impacted at least 5.3 million people before it was canceled around 12 p.m. Pacific time -- was ...

Earthquake intensity is a critical metric used to assess the impact of seismic activity on communities. In this case, the maximum intensity recorded was level 1, which typically signifies that the tremors are barely perceptible to many people.

TWO successive earthquakes struck the coastal town of Sarangani, Davao Occidental, Saturday night, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology reported. The epicenters of the earthquakes, which happened 17 minutes apart,

EL MORO, CO — An earthquake measuring 3.1 ml on the Richter scale struck near the town of Trinidad, with its origins in El Moro, Colorado late Tuesday evening. The initial shockwave was recorded by the U.S. Geological Survey around 11:36 p.m. and was ...

On the morning of September 18, a significant earthquake struck Eastern Shimane Prefecture, registering a magnitude of 6.2 on the Richter scale. The quake, occurring at a depth of 10 kilometers, is categorized as a shallow earthquake,

A powerful earthquake shook Tottori and Shimane prefectures on Jan. 6 resulting in the report of some injuries due to falls, but there was no danger of a tsunami, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.