Area 51 was rocked by an earthquake, sparking speculations of what might be happening underground at the top-secret facility.

Ten months of unrest at Mount Spurr could be a sign of an upcoming eruption from a side vent or, less likely, from the main ...

Scientists have detected several thousand earthquakes, the vast majority of them with small magnitudes, in just over two ...

A magnitude 4.1 earthquake struck off the Northern California coast after midnight on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Several smaller quakes followed.

A South Carolina ghost story could have a very earthly explanation. Starting in the 1950s, folks in the Summerville, S.C., area began reporting sightings of strange balls of light floating down a ...

As you might have guessed, given that Hough is a seismologist for the USGS, the study she and her team recently published in ...

The United States Geological Survey said there was a 2.8 magnitude shaking of the ground near the highly classified Area 51 ...

An earthquake has hit a secret military testing base near Las Vegas after a gigantic tremor sparked tsunami warnings in the ...

Although Greece is no stranger to earthquakes, seismic activity of such frequency and intensity without having been preceded by a major quake is unusual, seismologists say.

Fay Vincent, whose short term as Major League Baseball's eighth commissioner featured him more as a crisis manager, died on Saturday in Vero Beach, Fla. He was 86.