Earthquake News

A jarring 5.7-magnitude earthquake was recorded about 6 miles northwest of Greenville, near Lake Almanor, at about 8:47 p.m. Thursday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Craft breweries from around the country are teaming up to raise money for military families by selling a beer aged on baseball bats.

A massive undersea earthquake on Friday in Russia's Far East prompted a tsunami warning and was felt in cities including Moscow far to the west, but there were no immediate reports of casualties.

Tremors are felt from 4,000 miles away as two earthquakes strike in the turbulent Ring Of Fire region, in Russia and the US.

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake was widely felt as it rattled Northern California Thursday night, breaking dishes and shaking mirrors off walls.

A magnitude 8.2 earthquake struck off Russia's eastern coast on Friday, briefly prompting a tsunami scare but causing no casualties or substantial damage, Russian emergency authorities said.

Marina Kolomiyets, spokeswoman for Obninsk's seismic station of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said Friday the epicenter was in the Sea of Okhotsk, east of the Russian coast and north of Japan.

The epicenter for the extremely powerful quake was located in the Sea of Okhotsk, just to the west of the Kamchatka Peninsula, and about 600 kilometers underground.

Rafael Abreau, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Center, says the temblor struck at 8:47 p.m. and was centred 10 kilometres west northwest of Greenville, and about 40 kilometres southwest of Susanville.

Rafael Abreau, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Center, says the temblor struck at 8:47 p.m. and was centered six miles west northwest of Greenville, and 26 miles southwest of Susanville.

The epicenter of the magnitude 5.9 quake was near Greenville, or about halfway between Redding, California, and Reno, Nevada.

A 5.7 earthquake struck near Northern California's Plumas County at 8:47 p.m. Thursday, according to the United States Geological Service.

A 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck 255 kilometres southwest of Tonga on Friday, according to the US Geological Survey, but there were no reports of damage.

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Deformation from earthquakes bigger than magnitude 8.0 since 2000. The blue squares are GPS reference sites, and the red arrows are deformation from big earthquakes.

No tsunami was triggered by a magnitude-7.4 earthquake that struck Thursday morning in water's south of the Fiji islands.

A major earthquake in the south Pacific, 175 miles southwest of Vaini, Tonga, does not pose a tsunami threat to Hawaii, according to officials at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.

President Xi Jinping kisses a boy at a tent set up for survivors of the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Lushan County in Sichuan Province on April 20.

Many people like to start their holiday weekend off with a bang. But for many residents in eastern Canada Muskoka included the Victoria Day long weekend started off with a shake.

An unusual number of earthquakes have been reported in Central Arkansas since Monday.