IMAGE: A map of the earthquakes triggered around the globe within a week of the April 2012 earthquake off the coast of Sumatra (white star). This year’s largest earthquake, a magnitude 8.6 temblor on ...

Seismologists debate whether it’s possible to recognize when small earthquakes are really foreshocks preceding a stronger event. Now a team from Italy and Germany has re-analysed the seismic activity ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Geologists are continuing to monitor Mount Rainier in Washington state days after the first earthquake swarm in more than 15 years, with this year’s earthquake swarm event more ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Monday met with a community of Poor Clare nuns, whose abbess died when the roof of their monastery collapsed in an earthquake in 2009. The cloistered nuns were able to ...

This year's largest earthquake, a magnitude 8.6 temblor on April 11 centered in the East Indian Ocean off Sumatra, did little damage, but it triggered quakes around the world for at least a week, ...