(CNN) — Here’s a look at earthquakes worldwide. The US Geological Survey describes an earthquake as “the ground shaking caused by a sudden slip on a fault. Stresses in the earth’s outer ...

When it does, it releases energy in a burst, which causes the shaking of an earthquake. Earthquakes happen most often where tectonic plates meet. Tectonic plates are pieces of crust that fit ...

A magnitude 5.0 earthquake struck near Toyah, Texas, a sparsely populated town 190 miles east from El Paso, on Friday, February 14, 2025 (Figure 1). The quake was felt all the way to Albuquerque.

A 4.1-magnitude earthquake shook Malibu, the San Fernando Valley and other parts of Southern California on Sunday afternoon.

One of the state’s strongest earthquakes to date rattled West Texas ... Proving such causation is always tricky, but in this case the simple facts of the incident are disputed.

Naples has been rocked by one of the worst earthquakes in the region for 40 years, with residents forced to sleep on streets in the Italian city. A “huge roar” preceded the tremors in the ...

Earthquakes occur when the rock on one side of a fault slips relative to the other. The fault surface can be vertical, ...

The asteroid was likely between 6.2 and 9.3 miles (10 and 15 km) wide, and its collision with Earth triggered intense wildfires, tsunamis, and massive earthquakes around the world. The impact also ...

Every week, Plain Facts publishes a compilation of data-based ... with over 70% of its groundwater resources already used. A 4.0 magnitude earthquake caused panic in New Delhi on Monday.