A minor, 3.9-magnitude earthquake struck in the San Francisco Bay Area on Monday, according to the United States Geological ...

Earthquakes happen every day all over the world, along both tectonic plate edges and interiors. Earthquakes occur along faults, which are fractures between blocks of rock that allow the blocks to move ...

Pictured: a map of the earthquake data analyzed by the researchers. Pictured: a map of the earthquake data analyzed by the researchers. Saldanha et al. / OpenStreetMap The study builds on previous ...

Seismologists study earthquakes by looking at the damage that was caused and by using seismometers. A seismometer is an instrument that records the shaking of the Earth's surface caused by seismic ...