A chance video captured a fault rupture during March’s devastating Myanmar earthquake, delivering real-time evidence of how major seismic tremors propagate.

A third earthquake has been reported in Greenwood County, South Carolina. The most recent quake happened about 7:55 p.m. Wednesday and had a magnitude of 1.6. This is in the same area as quakes ...

Large earthquakes along some of New Zealand's major faults are commonly clustered in time and place, according to recent research.