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

The Shaky Backbone of California California lies at the boundary between two enormous tectonic plates. These plates don’t ...

A report from LA County departments tell how the county, and residents should be prepared for an earthquake. How do you do ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck offshore of Mindanao, the second largest island in the Philippines, at 7:37 A.M. local time ...

Hundreds of small earthquakes were recently recorded across California. A burst of small earthquakes does not necessarily mean a major quake is imminent. Scientists can calculate earthquake ...

The recent string of earthquakes are a reminder that we need to be prepared for “The Big One.” ...

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 ...