An earthquake of magnitude 4.0 struck Nepal on Wednesday, according to the National Centre for Seismology (NCS). Nepal is earthquake-prone due to its location on a convergent boundary where the Indian ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. Sacramento, CA – August 20, 2025 – The California Residential Mitigation Program (CRMP) announced today its second Earthquake ...

Magnitude 5.8 earthquake strikes near Russia's Kamchatka, GFZ says An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 struck near the east coast of the Kamchatka region in Russia's far east on Saturday, the German ...

A 4.3 earthquake struck in the San Francisco Bay Area on Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 2:56 a.m. Pacific time about 1 mile southeast of Berkeley, ...

At least seven earthquakes have rattled the coast of Alaska in the last 24 hours, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The quakes range in magnitude from 2.5 up to 5.2 and stretch ...

On August 31 at midnight, a magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck Afghanistan's eastern Kunar Province near the Pakistan border. Despite being moderate in magnitude, the earthquake caused extensive ...

GREENWOOD COUNTY, S.C. — A rural area of South Carolina, which was the center of a recent swarm of earthquakes, rumbled to life again on Saturday night. U.S. Geological Survey maps show a magnitude ...

A 3.0 aftershock struck in Berkeley just after 6:20 p.m. on Monday. It was centered in approximately the same place as the 4.3 magnitude earthquake that jolted the Bay Area area awake shortly before 3 ...

At least four earthquakes struck northwest Venezuela on Wednesday and early Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), sending tremors across the South American country, ...

A strong earthquake struck Russia's far eastern Kamchatka region, the regional governor said on Friday, prompting a series of tsunami warnings in the region, but there were for the moment no reports ...

A minor, 3.3-magnitude earthquake struck in the San Francisco Bay Area on Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 3 p.m. Pacific time about 5 miles east of ...