An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 struck the Afghanistan-Tajikistan border on Saturday, German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake was at a depth of 92 kilometers (57 miles), GFZ said.

The account went viral earlier this month after posting a similar message stating that a large earthquake would occur in Southern California between April 14 and 16. A 5.2 magnitude earthquake hit ...

Although it might not feel like earthquake country to a Californian, for example, northeastern North America experiences regular seismic activity and has hosted large earthquakes in the past.

So the main goal of the restoration under way is to "reinforce the building against the next big earthquake" so that the ancient structure "survives the event with the least damage possible," said ...

A "huge" earthquake has unleashed tremors so strong that locals of a famously quake-hit city have proclaimed it the biggest they have ever felt. The quake had a preliminary magnitude of 5.2 and ...

Earthquakes are deadly natural phenomena that have caused hundreds of thousands of deaths at a time in different parts of the world. California, which sits on the earthquake-prone “Ring of Fire ...

It occurred at about 1:08 p.m. ET. The quake happened just south of the Elsinore fault system, which has the potential of having earthquakes ranging from 6.5 to 7.5 in magnitude. The quake was ...