The numbers shift over time. There were 301 Tennessee earthquakes in 2018 but just 11 in 1994. The ground shakes when there is a sudden slip on a fault. The sudden slip releases energy in waves that ...

Researchers have developed a laboratory earthquake model that connects the microscopic real contact area between fault ...

An earthquake near Greenback, Tennessee, shook East Tennessee early Saturday morning. It was the largest quake in the region ...

Tennessee’s seismic zones are not along fault lines like those on the West Coast and the exact cause is unknown, Blake added. At least 45,000 people had reported that they felt the earthquake to ...

An earthquake of 4.1 magnitude has been reported in Tennessee and was felt in Atlanta, Georgia, and western North Carolina.

“The Big One” refers to a massive earthquake that is ... same concept for the New Madrid fault line, which sits right along the state lines of Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, and ...

Smaller aftershocks can occur in the days and weeks after an earthquake like the one that shook East Tennessee on May 11.

Most of Illinois’ earthquakes occur in the southern half of the state near the famed New Madrid fault line. That fault system has caused some of the strongest earthquakes in United States ...

We live on the New Madrid Fault line, which is the most seismically active region east of the Rockies. In 1811, a massive and unprecedented series of earthquakes shook the region. “And what they ...

The numbers shift over time. There were 301 Tennessee earthquakes in 2018 but just 11 in 1994. The ground shakes when there is a sudden slip on a fault. The sudden slip releases energy in waves ...