Geoscience Australia reported the quake just after 2am with an epicentre near the South Gippsland town of Korumburra.

The fact that the last big earthquake in Los Angeles occurred 32 years ago centered in Northridge, along with a new study saying tectonic stress on major faults in north LA County is highest in 1,000 ...

Earth is constantly moving beneath our feet, but most of that movement is too small for us to notice. Every once in a while, however, a fault releases an almost unimaginable amount of energy, sending ...

The Shaky Backbone of California California lies at the boundary between two enormous tectonic plates. These plates don’t ...

Researchers at a public university in California say they have developed a way to identify the most likely locations of some of the world’s biggest earthquakes. It comes the same day a quake shook ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck offshore of Mindanao, the second largest island in the Philippines, at 7:37 A.M. local time ...

Editor’s note: This post was updated to include the 1992 Landers earthquake. Few places on earth are as vulnerable to the capricious whims of the planet’s seismic tantrums than the Golden State. Some ...

A new study suggests the risk of "The Big One" in California could be greater than previously believed, raising concerns about the potential for widespread damage across Southern California.

The magnitude-6 earthquake that nucleated under the west side of the Island of Hawaiʻi on May 22 was felt throughout the ...