Question: I was told an earthquake in Madrid was the strongest ever felt in North America. How is that possible? Answer: I bet are you thinking of Madrid, Spain. The strongest earthquake in North ...

Dozens of people from Valdez to Whitehorse to Southeast Alaska reported to the United States Geological Survey that they’d ...

When it comes to natural or “weather-related hazards”, in Missouri, we think of thunderstorms, floods, and tornadoes. But there is one that is less common and lies beneath the surface—earthquakes. The ...

Nearly a third of Earth’s living mass exists underground, in dark environments where sunlight never reaches. Instead of relying on photosynthesis, these deep-living microbes survive on chemical energy ...

At 11:11 a.m. local time on October 7, Afghanistan’s Herat province was struck by a magnitude 6.3 temblor. A fault at the far western end of the Hindu Kush mountain range ruptured, damaging the ...