The vast majority of earthquakes strike inside the Ring of Fire, a string of volcanoes and tectonic activity that wraps ...

South West Khasi Hills, Meghalaya, experienced a 4.1 magnitude earthquake on Tuesday afternoon ... as mild tremors were also reported in parts of Assam and West Bengal, causing momentary concern ...

Today marks one month since a 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck Vanuatu’s capital ... Downtown Port Vila remains a no-go zone; Star Wharf, the international port, is still out of action and ...

The World Bank will finance an additional $1 billion to Türkiye’s earthquake zone in 2025, bringing the total resources the bank provided to the country’s affected region in the southeast to ...

The Central Virginia Seismic Zone includes several small but active faults that occasionally release energy, resulting in minor to moderate earthquakes. "The Central Virginia seismic zone is far ...

A small earthquake shook Henrico County in Virginia Tuesday evening, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The earthquake happened about 5:28 p.m. and had a magnitude of 2.8, which is ...

Japan is one of the world’s most earthquake-prone countries and sits on the Ring of Fire, a region of seismic faults around the Pacific. In March 2011, a massive magnitude 9 quake — the ...

Occasional large ones have also occurred, however, the USGS said. Virginia has three seismic zones, or places where earthquakes occur, and one is in the central part of the state, where Tuesday ...

HENRICO COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — A 2.8 magnitude earthquake shook Henrico County and surrounding localities Tuesday evening. According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the earthquake took place ...

With a magnitude of 8.6, the August 15, 1950, earthquake on the Assam-Myanmar border is the largest continental event ever recorded. The 2015 Gorkha earthquake, measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale ...

As it turns out, it was a 2.8 magnitude earthquake centered in the Wyndham area of Henrico County. The earthquake happened around 5:30 p.m. Initial reports indicate it had a depth of seven miles.

especially in earthquake prone regions of Tibet. Sikyong Penpa Tsering (File) According to a fact-sheet on the January 7 earthquake – which levelled thousands of houses and killed over 100 ...