Humans can cause earthquakes. Some oil and gas drilling companies inject large amounts of water underground, and this water can make faults slip, triggering quakes in places like Oklahoma and Texas.

Scotland - and The Great Glen - lie on the Great Glen fault. A fault is where two tectonic plates meet. The other half of this one is in Canada! ISLA: Well, fold mountains like these are created ...

SEATTLE — A magnitude 3.4 earthquake struck near Auburn Saturday morning with reports of it being felt in Tacoma and Seattle.

A magnitude 4.3 earthquake struck the Badakhshan region of Afghanistan early Tuesday morning, at a depth of 180 kilometers.

GREENWATER, Wash. — A 3.0 magnitude earthquake shook the ground in far east King County on Tuesday morning. The Puget Sound ...

An image analysis technique shows that crustal damage from an earthquake can extend further than expected with implications for slip rate estimates and hazard assessment.

Deep earthquakes: Deep faults happen when two tectonic plates collide and one plate slips beneath the other one. These quakes can impact a large area but are less intense. Subduction zone ...