Geoscience Australia reported the quake just after 2am with an epicentre near the South Gippsland town of Korumburra.

Earth is constantly moving beneath our feet, but most of that movement is too small for us to notice. Every once in a while, however, a fault releases an almost unimaginable amount of energy, sending ...

Cascadia’s rupture may jolt the San Andreas, creating the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. Here’s what you’ll learn ...

Yellowstone recorded 77 earthquakes in September 2026, the largest a magnitude 3.4, according to the monthly update from the ...

South Carolina isn’t known for large earthquakes, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have another. Several earthquakes rattle the ...

Editor’s note: This post was updated to include the 1992 Landers earthquake. Few places on earth are as vulnerable to the capricious whims of the planet’s seismic tantrums than the Golden State. Some ...

Researchers at a public university in California say they have developed a way to identify the most likely locations of some of the world’s biggest earthquakes. It comes the same day a quake shook ...

UC Riverside scientists have developed a way to identify where Earth’s biggest earthquakes are most likely to occur, offering a powerful new tool for improving disaster preparations in some of the ...