Millions of people in Venezuela and surrounding countries received early warning alerts to their phones up to two minutes ...

Both faults are along plate boundaries that move in similar ways and have ruptured in enormously destructive earthquakes in ...

As earthquakes struck from California to Venezuela to Japan, millions of people received warnings on their mobile phones, ...

On Wednesday evening, Venezuela was hit with its largest tremors in more than a century — toppling buildings and claiming ...

Earthquakes have caused vast damage in Venezuela, catching residents by surprise in a place not accustomed to temblors. A ...

It appears the two big earthquakes in Venezuela that occurred in rapid succession may have involved two separate fault lines.

On June 24, two quakes above magnitude 7 struck the northern part of the country only 39 seconds apart. While doublet ...

Then, at 6:04 p.m. ET, an M7.2 foreshock rocked the northeast coast of Venezuela, immediately followed by an M7.5 mainshock.

Scientists have confirmed that a mysterious Utah earthquake first detected in 1979 really did occur nearly 90 kilometers underground—far deeper than anyone thought earthquakes could happen beneath a ...

(This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy.) Two strong, back-to-back earthquakes struck around the world on June 8, reigniting worries that more serious temblors could ...

Southern California is home to two major fault lines, the San Andreas and San Jacinto, where large tectonic plates grind past each other, occasionally triggering violent earthquakes. While smaller ...