Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A magnitude 6 earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan just before midnight local time on Sunday, ...

Earthquakes often bring to mind images of destruction, of the Earth breaking open and altering landscapes. But after an earthquake, the area around it undergoes a period of post-seismic deformation, ...

The world's greatest earthquake belt, the circum-Pacific seismic belt, is found along the rim of the Pacific Ocean, where ...

The 5.2-magnitude earthquake Tuesday night shook many parts of Southern California, bringing attention to an important aspect of seismic events: their depth. The temblor, which struck near Mettler in ...

A significant earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck the Tyrrhenian Sea off Italy's west coast. Detected by the German Research Centre for Geosciences, the quake occurred at a depth of 377 km. Despite its ...