This comes as landslides, earthquakes, and relentless rain have impacted the area this week. Concrete rests at the confluence ...

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Japan has recorded a series of powerful aftershocks in the past several hours, including a magnitude 5.7 earthquake near the east coast of Honshu and a 4.9 earthquake in the Hokkaido region shortly ...

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A powerful earthquake struck off northern Japan late Monday local time, triggering a tsunami of up to 28 inches in Pacific coast communities, the Japanese Meteorological Agency said. The agency ...

A 7.6 magnitude earthquake triggered 10 ft high tsunami warnings for across the northeastern coast of Japan on Monday, the country's meteorological agency said. That tsunami warning has since been ...

Thanksgiving got off to a shaky start in south-central Alaska as a 6.0-magnitude earthquake rattled the region on Thursday morning, November 27. Video from Anchorage resident Vicki Heinrich shows the ...

Alaska is the most earthquake-prone region in the U.S. A 6.0 magnitude earthquake rocked Alaska early Thursday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake struck at 8:11 a.m. local ...

If you happened to feel some light shaking in your house late Friday night, you may have been among dozens of New Jerseyans who felt a small earthquake. A quake with a magnitude of 1.8 occurred at ...

The USGS said the quake was unrelated to recent Kilauea volcanic eruptions. An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.6 struck the southeastern portion of Hawaii's Big Island Wednesday night just before ...

Researchers re-created the conditions deep inside the Cascadia subduction zone and found that fractured rocks can repair themselves during, or just hours after, slow-motion earthquakes. When you ...