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 ...

Jolted out of bed by the 6.4-magnitude earthquake just before 4 a.m., correspondent Llazar Semini in Tirana knew immediately he was dealing with a major story. He got his family to safety and went to ...

Americans have long lived in fear of the 'Big One' - an earthquake so enormous it would devastate the West Coast. The harrowing images of Thailand and Myanmar on Friday morning after a 7.7 ...