More than two dozen Mexican rescue volunteers and firefighters have been looking for victims and clearing debris along the ...

Earthquakes are becoming increasingly common in the Lone Star State, particularly in West Texas.

SNYDER, Texas — At 10:38 p.m. Monday, the ground began to rumble in West Texas. The real action was nearly five miles below the surface, where a 4.9-magnitude earthquake happened just west of ...

More than 300 earthquakes have erupted at Washington's Mount Rainier this week, the largest earthquake swarm at the volcano ...

While earthquakes do occur on occasion in Florida, what you felt last night wasn't an earthquake, at least according to the U ...

Earthquakes in the Permian Basin in West Texas were happening at shallower depths than previously thought, near fracking-related wastewater disposal.

The earthquake is now considered the seventh strongest earthquake in state history. The largest earthquake in Texas occurred near Valentine in August 1931 and measured at 5.8 magnitude. Texas has ...

West Texas gets its fair share of earthquakes, but last week’s sheer total and magnitude of seismic activity was staggering. Scurry County, which sits in the Permian Basin, was hit by 62 ...

In the wake of a magnitude 5.1 earthquake rattling near Midland Monday evening, Texas geology experts are giving further insight into some of the causes behind these quakes.

Seafloor sensors caught a rare slow quake in action. It hints at how Earth's stress is quietly released. For the first time, ...

In a scientific first, researchers have tracked the elusive motion of a rare variety of earthquake during a seismic event ...