(NEXSTAR) — While areas like California and the West Coast may be top of mind when you think of where earthquakes occur in the U.S., a new report shows nearly 75% of the country could experience a ...

Earthquakes and seismic activity often happen with sudden movements underground with tectonic plates. Seismographs are used by scientists to measure the time, location and strength of an earthquake.

Earthquake strength is registered on the moment magnitude scale, which measures how much energy was released when the rocks along a fault moved during the quake. By Henry Fountain Earthquake strength ...

MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. — No, it wasn’t an early April Fools’ Day prank, a low-magnitude earthquake really did rumble the area late Sunday night. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported that a ...

Scientists measure both the energy released in an earthquake and its damage. In 1902, Italian scientist Giuseppe Mercalli introduced a scale that measures the intensity of an earthquake based on its ...

Earthquakes are measured using seismographs, which monitor the seismic waves that travel through the Earth after an earthquake strikes. Scientists used the Richter Scale for many years but now largely ...