The Central U.S. Earthquake Consortium has a new tool projecting the impacts of potential major earthquakes within the New ...

In 2011, the French government brought in a new 'seismic zoning system'. The updated map shows the parts of the country with the greatest risk of seismic activity. You can see the previous map ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has a Plant Hardiness Zone Map that divides the U.S. into 13 different zones, which helps gardeners choose plants that can survive in their respective ...

Additional information collected about the earthquake may also prompt U.S.G.S. scientists to update the shake-severity map. An aftershock is usually a smaller earthquake that follows a larger one ...

(FOX 5/KUSI) — A 3.7 magnitude earthquake was recorded near Borrego ... according to the survey’s Did You Feel It? map. In San Diego County, light shaking was reported as north as Oceanside ...

While Vancouver Island is an active earthquake zone and earthquakes are happening all the time, the number of rumblers of late is notable, Cassidy said. “Here in Victoria, we’ve had four ...

CHENNAI: The Chennai Corporation has finalised the new zonal map for the city with 20 zones against the earlier 15, as announced by the Municipal Administration department on Friday. As per the ...

Homeowners who live in areas now deemed at very high hazard on the maps will have to comply with the “Zone 0” regulation expected to take effect at the start of next year, mandating a five ...

Researchers have long thought that this force is the central driver of earthquakes. But another force is also in the mix: the properties of the rocks in the fault zones along the plate interface.

THE Koyna earthquake of December 11, 1967, killed about 200 people and injured a few thousand. The eipcentre was within 5 km of the Koyna Dam (17° 23′ N., 73° 45′ E.). A magnitude of the ...

Earthquakes have been recorded in almost every part of the state, but there are clusters where they are more common, particularly in West Texas. The region has the most fault zones in the state ...