Over 300 minor earthquakes have been detected under the surface of Mount Rainier since the morning of Tuesday, July 8. The swarm is the first of its kind since 2009, and, according to Pacific Northwest Seismic Network Director Harold Tobin, the biggest ...

A 4.4-magnitude earthquake struck a little more than 2 miles north of La Verne Tuesday, and residents all over the Southland reported feeling the temblor. Residents reported feeling a shake from the San Fernando Valley all the way to Orange and Riverside ...

Today at about 11.30am local time, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula in the country’s far east. Originating at a depth of roughly 20 kilometres, today’s powerful earthquake – among the 10 strongest in ...

The last significant quake swarm in the San Ramon area, in 2015, lasted 36 days and produced 654 tiny earthquakes, the largest a magnitude 3.6, said Roland Bürgmann, a professor of earth and planetary science at UC Berkeley and the UC Berkeley Seismology Lab.

Could your smartphone save your life? If an earthquake is occurring, it just might. A worldwide Android smartphone-based earthquake detection and early warning system can detect seismic activity in real time – and deliver life-saving alerts that are just ...