Some callers to the York, Maine Police Department questioned whether an explosion had rocked the coastal town, said Sergeant Brian McNiece. ”Th ...

People in the Boston area reported on social media that they felt some shaking and an intensity map available ... and Sciences. Earthquakes on the East Coast can affect larger areas than ...

Experts from UNH explain how rare the 3.8 magnitude earthquake was and the likelihood of significant aftershocks.

Alex de Steiguer was about to send an email from a house on Star Island, 7 miles off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire, when she heard what she thought was a big plane flying over. Outside, a flock ...

A USGS “shake map ... The earthquake occurred along the Central Virginia Seismic Zone, the same fault line that produced one of the strongest quakes to ever hit the East Coast.

People in the Boston area reported on social media that they felt some shaking and an intensity map available on the USGS’s website ... More: How rare are East Coast earthquakes? One of the largest ...

A plate boundary called the San Andreas Fault stretches through California. Compared to the western U.S., the hard, brittle rocks on the East Coast are better at spreading earthquake energy across ...

The Noto earthquake has lessons for us living in California. Unlike the M9.1 2011 Great East Japan earthquake, it did not occur on a subduction fault and ... by broken fuel lines, overtopped ...