A moderately strong, 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck in Turkey on Tuesday, according to the United States Geological Survey.

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The 1980 eruption cycle made Mount St. Helens one of the most famous and now best-monitored volcanoes in the Cascades. But it ...

Point Reyes sits right on the San Andreas Fault. The Olema Valley landscape has healed, and the fault line has been ...

Coastal communities from northern California to British Columbia live atop the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which spans about ...

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The United States Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program ... the epicentre - they radiate out from the whole line of the fault,” he added. Myanmar lies on the boundary between two tectonic ...

If you don’t have earthquake insurance, you might want to look into it! Our country has its faults, literally and ... Across the central United States highways and bridges would be damaged ...

The largest U.S. quake was in our own backyard, the M7.0 Mendocino fault earthquake on Dec. 5 ... It is not just a Pacific problem — states and territories bordering the Gulf of Mexico, the ...

A swarm of earthquakes ... to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The last one of that magnitude was a 6.6 event in 1895 near Charleston, Missouri - 129 years ago. Thus, this fault ...