After a 4.1 magnitude earthquake rattled eastern Tennessee Saturday morning, some might be wondering how often seismic events ...

This couldn't be farther from the truth. Several major and numerous minor earthquakes have occurred in the midwestern and eastern United States, as well as eastern Canada. Over 900,000 ...

The United States is a big country, and many parts of the country are in areas of active tectonic activities. This makes them prone to tremors, earthquakes, and all the natural hazards they come ...

Smaller aftershocks can occur in the days and weeks after an earthquake like the one that shook East Tennessee on May 11.

Earthquakes are often perceived as a Western US phenomenon, but history tells a different story. Some of the largest earthquakes in US history have occurred in the East, challenging the notion that ...

and it doesn't mean a significantly larger earthquake is imminent, according to the United States Geological Survey. The frequency of earthquakes has been increasing, but it might be because ...

Three earthquakes were recorded in this area of South Carolina in 2024, but these are the first tremors of this year.

“Though the frequency of these minor earthquakes may alarm some ... in South Carolina — and on the East Coast of the United States — was a devastating 7.3 in Charleston in 1886.