The British Geographical Survey says the earthquake occurred at a shallow depth of 6.2 miles (10km).
Numerous New Jersey residents took to social media early Friday afternoon, reporting loud booms, rattling and shaking from an earthquake.
A re-examination of the 2015 Bonin Islands earthquake disproved earlier claims of a record-breaking deep aftershock in the lower mantle, identifying instead 14 aftershocks linked to a metastable olivine wedge in the upper mantle.
People as far away as Connecticut, Massachusetts and North Carolina reported they felt shaking Friday afternoon.
Sim Hwee Kok and his partner Neo Siew Choo were last seen getting off a bus near the Shakadang Trail in Hualien county, shortly before the 7.2-magnitude earthquake.
Morocco’s largest private museum has undergone a redesign that shows more of the permanent collection as well as reinforcements to protect it against any future damage
What was that? If you felt a rumble near the Rockland County/New Jersey border, it may have not been a large truck. It was an earthquake.
A moderately strong, 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck in the Philippines on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 7:39 a.m. Philippine time about 4 miles southeast of Liloan,
A 2.4-magnitude earthquake was recorded near Paramus, New Jersey on Friday afternoon, according to the USGS. The earthquake was recorded just after 1 p.m. at a depth of about 7.7 kilometers (4.7 miles).
As UCL research suggests oil extraction caused devastating tremors in Surrey, nearby residents fight to prevent history repeating itself
Enduring folklore of “ghost lights” haunting a Lowcountry town in South Carolina may be more fact than myth, a new study suggests. However, the so-called “Summerville Light” isn’t the work of a ghost, according to Susan E. Hough, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey.