“Modern building codes and construction have significantly improved the structural integrity of all parts of buildings, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A young girl and others stands in the aisle of a grocery store with products strewn across the floor in the aftermath of an ...

For the first time, scientists have watched a subduction zone literally fall apart beneath the ocean floor. Using advanced ...

Take yourself back to fifth-grade science for a second. You might have learned that earthquakes are caused by the sudden movement of big, underground sheets of rock, called tectonic plates. Your ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — A 2.9 magnitude earthquake struck just over the U.S.-Canadian border Sunday morning, sending minor tremors across southeast Michigan and parts of the Toledo area. According to the U.S.

An ancient underwater volcano riding a sinking tectonic plate off the coast of Japan may have unleashed several unexplained major earthquakes — by grinding against another tectonic plate above it, a ...

Two small earthquakes felt in Monroe County have residents asking if bigger shakes are coming. Scientists say Southeast ...