Earthquakes

People across Southeast Asia commemorated the lives of those lost two decades ago in the massive Indian Ocean tsunami that killed close to 230,000.

The USGS says a magnitude 7.3 earthquake has struck just off the coast of Vanuatu in the South Pacific Ocean.

People in Northern California shared footage of the 7.0 Magnitude earthquake that rattled the state Thursday.

The tsunami warning launched by NOAA following a magnitude 7.0 earthquake off the coast of California has been canceled.

Dave Snider, Tsunami Warning Coordinator at NOAA, said a destructive tsunami is not likely to occur following a magnitude 7.0 earthquake off the coast of California.

Several earthquakes struck Northern California Thursday, including a preliminary magnitude-7.0 offshore in the Pacific Ocean at 10:44 a.m. PT that triggered a tsunami warning along coastal areas from Santa Cruz into Oregon.

An earthquake centered in the Malibu area with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 rattled parts of Southern California early Thursday.

A preliminary 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck the east coast of Taiwan Thursday afternoon, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

Many parts of Southern California felt shaking Monday afternoon as a preliminary 4.4-magnitude earthquake shook the Highland Park area.

The shaking felt across Massachusetts and the Northeast on Friday from an earthquake that hit New Jersey might have felt like a wake-up call for some people. Earthquakes can hit Boston? They certainly can, and they have in the past, but experts say they are quite rare. “This is a once-in-20-year earthquake here in the northeastern part of the...

An earthquake struck in central Maine earlier this week, coming as a surprise to locals who felt the rumbling as they dried out from the torrential rain that hit much of New England. A 2.5 magnitude earthquake was recorded by the U.S. Geological Survey, near the town line of Turner and Livermore. The quake was 9.6 kilometers beneath the ground…