A hilly area surrounding the Zagros Mountains in Iraq is being pulled into Earth. Understanding why could help predict future ...

Anyone who felt tremors and shaking or heard rumbling from Sunday morning’s earthquake can report it to the USGS. The South ...

While studying the area’s seismology, Dr. Hough scoured historical accounts, old newspaper articles, letters and diaries for mentions of earthquakes ... been studying its faults, a difficult ...

Using advanced theoretical and numerical models, I try to understand how fractures and faults, which are ubiquitous below the Earth’s surface, fail under various loadings—whether due to natural events ...

Many Massachusetts residents reported strong rattling ... “It helps us figure out where the active faults may be and potentially where the big earthquakes may occur in the future,” Ebel explained.

while doing so I started to suspect it might be an earthquake. Glad it was ‘only’ that!” “There are small faults around us. They are not major plates that cause big earthquakes.

Communities from Maine to Massachusetts felt a 3.8 magnitude ... same area within the next week or so.” Earthquake activity can “disturb other faults in a way that that can occasionally ...

In Turners Falls, another viewer, Gabrielle, said she felt the earthquake for about 6 to 10 seconds. A Ware, Massachusetts, resident said she was home and her whole house was shaking for about 10 ...

BOSTON - An earthquake felt in Boston, Massachusetts on Monday was centered ... "We don't sit on any active fault lines," WBZ-TV executive weather producer Terry Eliasen said.