Eventually, the stress exceeds the strength of the fault and it breaks free. This causes a shockwave of stored energy to travel up towards Earth's surface, which we feel as an earthquake.

A live map of the latest earthquakes in Orange County and active earthquake faults. The latest available quake and fault data is turned ON by default and the other metadata described below is OFF ...

A powerful earthquake hit Myanmar and neighbouring Thailand on Friday, turning a major hospital in the Myanmar capital into a ...

More parts of Orange County are identified where residents might be required to start taking measures to protect their homes.

A magnitude 3.2 earthquake was reported in Los Angeles County on Sunday night, centered about 22 miles off the coast of ...

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.2 rattled the coastal Los Angeles County area Sunday. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake struck at 8:27 p.m. The epicenter was about ...

A major, 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck in Myanmar on Friday, according to the United States Geological Survey. At a depth of about six miles, the quake was relatively shallow, which made it ...

Myanmar was struck by a massive 7.7-magnitude earthquake, followed by another one of 6.4 on the Richter Scale today, which claimed several lives and toppled buildings, ruptured roads and collapsed ...