A 2.7 magnitude earthquake was confirmed in Bergen County on Tuesday afternoon, Aug. 5, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said. The tremor struck at 12:11 p.m. EST about 2 kilometers ...

The U.S. Geological Survey has reclassified Wednesday morning's shaking as a quarry blast.

Inside the Secretive Deal for a $10 Billion Data Center in Rural North Carolina As Solar and Batteries Dominate in Texas, Republican Lawmakers Consider Natural Gas Minimums Coming to Some of ...

For centuries, there was one thing California offered that other states just didn’t have. No, we're not talking great fish tacos or giant sequoias—it's frequent earthquakes. But a new map published by ...

When a 2.9-magnitude earthquake shook the tri-county area at 10:37 p.m. on Feb. 7, many residents of Summerville and the surrounding areas reported hearing loud pops and feeling brief tremors.

On May 24, 1969, Hawaii’s Kīlauea volcano started to erupt—and continued erupting for an incredible 1,774 days. In the first year alone, fountains of lava, some of them nearly 2,000 feet high, spurted ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nearly 75% of the country is at risk for a potentially damaging earthquake in the next 100 years, according to a recently updated ...