More than 152,000 Illinois residents will be participating in a multi-state earthquake drill next month, including residents and businesses in Richland County. The second annual Great Central U.S. ShakeOut will be held at 10:15 a.m. Feb. 7. “ With the New Madrid and Wabash Valley seismic zones located in Southern Illinois, it's important for people to know how to stay safe if a major ...
A quake of magnitude-5.1 quake hit the area on Wednesday.
A 5.4-magnitude earthquake shook northern Italy on Friday, the second such temblor this week, but there were no reports of injuries or significant damage.
A magnitude 5.3 magnitude earthquake is felt in Turin and Milan, the second to hit northern Italy in a week, but there are no reports of damage.
The magnitude-7.0 earthquake that shook Port-au-Prince, Haiti, two years ago nearly demolished the city and took residents and geologists by surprise. Now scientists think they’ve identified a centuries-long pattern of earthquakes on the island of Hispaniola that could portend earthquakes to come.
A shallow magnitude 3.0 earthquake was reported Thursday morning 17 miles from Cartago, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 9:09 a.m. PST at a depth of 5.0 miles.
TOKYO — It's the seismic shift that Tokyoites dread: a powerful earthquake that kills thousands and plunges Japan's political and financial center into chaos. read more
Residents living in Donegal in the Irish Republic are woken by a minor earthquake in the early hours of Thursday morning.
The University of Tokyo’s Earthquake Research Institute predicts that there is a 70 percent chance of a magnitude 7 earthquake hitting the southern part of metro Tokyo in the next four years.
Japan has already suffered one earthquake in 2012. But the New Year's Day rumble caused little damage because it was centered deep below the surface. A new study warns, however, that the Tokyo region has a 70 percent chance of experiencing a major earthquake within four years.
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