SAN DIEGO COUNTY, CA - A preliminary 2.2 magnitude quake occurred close to Julian on Sunday morning, according to the U.S.

CUMBRIA may be thousands of miles from the world’s major fault lines, but the county has still felt the earth move – and new ...

IMPERIAL COUNTY, CA - A preliminary 2.1 magnitude quake struck near Brawley on Saturday afternoon, according to the U.S.

NAPA COUNTY, CA - A preliminary 2.1 magnitude quake occurred close to Angwin on Saturday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey ...

NEVADA COUNTY, CA - A preliminary 2.6 magnitude quake rattled close to Truckee around midday Friday, according to the U.S.

An extremely large earthquake has occurred in the southeast of Turkey, near the border with Syria. Data from seismometers which measure shaking of the ground caused by earthquake waves suggest this ...

A powerful earthquake registering 7.6 on the Richter scale has hit off Japan's north-eastern coastline. The tremor, which occurred on Monday evening local time (December 8), has sparked tsunami ...

An earthquake measuring 5.4 on Richter scale jolted India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands at 12:06 pm (IST) on Sunday, National Center for Seismology (NCS) said. The epicenter was at 90 km, NCS said on ...

A strong earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale struck Venezuela in the early hours of Thursday, the National Centre for Seismology (NCS) said. According to the NCS, the earthquake was recorded ...

The Richter scale is used to measure the strength of an earthquake. Theoretically, the maximum reading that’s possible is 10. The most powerful quake ever recorded was 9.5, which happened in Chile in ...

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