A recent magnitude 4.1 earthquake struck near Templeton, Central California, on November 18, 2025. This event caused noticeable tremors across the Central Coast region, making residents from Paso Robles to Salinas feel the shaking.

The first earthquake struck while the town was still asleep. Around 2:00 am on Dec. 16, 1811, New Madrid—a small frontier settlement of 400 people on land now located in Missouri—was jolted awake. Panicked townsfolk fled their homes as buildings ...

Stretching around 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) along western North America, the Tintina fault has long been assumed to be inactive. Now, a new study has challenged that assumption, finding that the fault has generated “numerous large earthquakes in the ...

Residents living in the Inland Empire may have been woken by a series of earthquakes that shook the area during the early morning hours on Wednesday. The first was a 3.5 magnitude quake that struck at 1:02 a.m. about 4.6 miles southeast of Ontario at a ...

Fears of a devastating tsunami faded Wednesday for the U.S. and Japan after one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck off a sparsely populated Russian peninsula, but new alerts along South America's Pacific coast forced evacuations and closed ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- A major, preliminary magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck in the South Atlantic Ocean late Thursday, the United States Geological Survey reported, prompting Chilean authorities to issue an advisory for a potential tsunami along parts ...

TOKYO, Japan — Fears of a devastating tsunami faded Wednesday for the U.S. and Japan after one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck off a sparsely populated Russian peninsula, but new alerts along South America’s Pacific coast forced ...