By Emily Burnham, Bangor Daily News Staff Though Maine is quiet seismologically compared with hotspots like California, ...

The subduction zone is itself moving south (rolling back), pulling ... consistent with extension. The earthquake was part of the widening of the trough, the break-up of the Aegean plate. This fault ...

Quiet nights during the COVID-19 lockdown led ... who would tell her that ‘travel is the greatest education’. To avoid flying to South America in 2011, Larissa “took the plunge” to ...

Church volunteers in western Ukraine are the hub of a global network channeling provisions to war refugees and the front lines.

Loss, love and a sense of belonging — survivors, evacuees, heroes and allies weigh in on what the fires revealed ...

Africa is broken. It is being dissected by the famous East African Rift which extends over a length of 5000 km along the eastern side of Africa and seems poised to destroy Africa as we know it.

From late July to October 2022, residents of the Manu'a Islands in American Samoa felt the earth shake several times a day, ...

According to the USGS, a 1.64 magnitude earthquake occurred about 7.5 miles northeast of Salem, South Carolina, at 1:36 a.m. Sunday. For more information, click here. To report an earthquake that ...

OCONEE COUNTY, S.C. — Part of South Carolina experienced a bit of a rumble on Sunday morning - and it wasn't in one of the usual spots. Seismometers picked up a small earthquake near Salem ...

This was the third earthquake recorded in South Carolina in 2025 after 30 were confirmed last year, according to the USGS.

Earthquake Awareness Month serves as a crucial reminder of the importance of preparedness, especially for Arkansans living within the New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ). Nearly 200 earthquakes occur ...

A San Antonio-area town has been shaken by earthquakes rather frequently since the start of the year. After a nearly record-breaking quake rattled the earth a week ago, another rare Magnitude 2.8 ...