At the Seismological Society of America's Annual Meeting, researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are faults? Using data compiled from single earthquakes across the world, Christie ...

Last week's magnitude 6.4 and 7.1 earthquakes in the Searles Valley near Ridgecrest three hours northeast of Palm Springs occurred in an unusual perpendicular or T pattern along two shorter faults.

The cracks, also known as faults, associated with the crust rifting and separating near the Atlantic Ocean go underneath the Charleston area, Pratt said. This is one explanation for the disastrous ...

According to Maine’s Geological Survey, the earthquake reached areas throughout southeastern New England including Boston, Worcester and Lowell, Massachusetts; Hanover, New Hampshire and Providence, ...

We have had damaging earthquakes historically in the past and every reason to believe we will have damaging earthquakes in the future,” Ebel said. The most storied earthquake in Massachusetts history ...

Last year, a 4.8 earthquake centered in New Jersey was felt in parts of Massachusetts. The seismograph at the Weston Observatory at Boston College on Monday, January 27, 2025. CBS Boston ...

BOSTON — Parts of Massachusetts and New England felt a "once every five year" rumble and shake Monday morning when a small earthquake hit the area. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, a 3.8 ...

An earthquake off the coast of Maine rattled parts of Massachusetts around 10:22 a.m. Monday morning. According to data from the United States Geological Survey, the earthquake originated about 11 ...

Earthquakes occur when energy stored in the Earth's crust is suddenly released, typically due to the movement of tectonic plates. New England's earthquakes are attributed to ancient fault lines ...

The US Geological Survey said this quake, whose epicenter was about 7 miles from southern Maine’s coastal town of York, was the strongest earthquake to strike the Northeast since last April’s ...

The earthquake struck around 11 kilometers southeast of York Harbor just before 10:30 a.m. E.T. on Monday morning. As of 11 a.m., there were 23,000 reports on the USGS site of people feeling the ...

YORK, ME. (WWLP) – An earthquake has been confirmed in Maine that could be felt here in western Massachusetts. The U.S. Geological Survey reports that at 10:22 a.m. on Monday, a 4.1 magnitude ...