The two powerful earthquakes that struck Venezuela’s northern coast, killing more than 180 people, were an event known as a ...

On Wednesday evening, Venezuela was hit with its largest tremors in more than a century — toppling buildings and claiming more than 100 lives. The event, according to the US Geological Survey, was a ...

Professor Dean Whitman, of the Department of Earth and Environment, studies earthquakes. He answers questions about the geophysics of the destructive event.

The country was hit hard by a pair of quakes that happened in quick succession and were likely driven by stress being ...

Global distribution of natural and induced seismicity. Natural earthquakes with moment magnitude higher than 5 are color-coded according to their hypocenter depth (upper right colorbar, U.S.

Venezuela was struck by two enormous earthquakes seconds apart. Could the San Andreas or Hayward faults produce a similar ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – With recent earthquakes felt in parts of Dorchester County and the Midlands in recent weeks, we look at the history of earthquakes in South Carolina. An earthquake is caused ...

Each year, approximately 20,000 earthquakes occur globally. Even though most of these earthquakes are weak or occur in unpopulated areas, their destructive potential is clear. While richer nations ...

Factors like the short interval between the two powerful quakes and different types of soil led to some structures collapsing ...