When it does, it releases energy in a burst, which causes the shaking of an earthquake. Earthquakes happen most often where tectonic plates meet. Tectonic plates are pieces of crust that fit ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at earthquakes worldwide. The US Geological Survey describes an earthquake as “the ground shaking caused by a sudden slip on a fault. Stresses in the earth’s outer ...

On March 10, 1933, a major earthquake caught the Los Angeles area by surprise. The devastation was of sufficient scale to spur scientific interest in earthquakes—and how to predict them.

Following is a transcript of the video. Gerardo Suárez: "The ground can open up during an earthquake." Everything disappears in the earth. Earthquakes don't operate like that. "You should always ...

Earthquakes are strong and sudden movements of the Earth's surface caused by shifts in the Earth's crust. They can change the shape of land, destroy buildings, and affect the lives of people in ...

Another earthquake has rattled an area near the coastal city of Malibu in Southern California. A magnitude 3.9 earthquake was reported at 8:17 p.m. Sunday about 7 miles northwest of Malibu ...

Earthquakes are part of Washington’s past, present, and future, and we have local Native American tribes to thank for documenting some of our earliest ones. Local tribes have helped inform today ...

The Ring of Fire is home to 75% of the world's volcanoes and 90% of its earthquakes. 2 min read The Ring of Fire is a roughly 25,000-mile chain of volcanoes and seismically active sites that ...

A 3.9 magnitude earthquake struck about 7 miles northwest of Malibu on Sunday night. The earthquake was felt in Ventura, Los Angeles, and Orange counties. Southern California experiences thousands ...