About 55 earthquakes a day – 20,000 a year – are recorded by the National Earthquake Information Center. Most are tiny and barely noticed by people living where they happen. But some are strong enough ...

Earthquakes are measured using seismographs, which monitor the seismic waves that travel through the Earth after an earthquake strikes. Scientists used the Richter Scale for many years but now largely ...

On a seemingly ordinary day, residents of Kawartha Lakes, located north of Toronto, Canada, were startled by a magnitude 4.1 earthquake that shook the region. This unexpected seismic event not only ...

Things have been off to a shaky start in the Midlands in 2022. Kershaw County has reported 3 earthquakes in the first week of January. The two quakes reported Wednesday brought the total number of ...