The earthquakes are not believed to be connected. But they are a reminder of lurking danger.

Aug 12 (Reuters) - As Colombia reels from one of the strongest earthquakes in its recorded history that killed at least 250, just weeks after more than 6,000 deaths in twin quakes in neighboring ...

Almost no other country in the world is rocked by such frequent and damaging earthquakes as Japan, which sits on the boundary ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Back-to-back earthquakes rocked the area north of Los Angeles near two of California's most significant faults — including the ...

Flight 165 returned 147 Venezuelans deported from the United States, even as families continue searching for migrants missing ...

A preliminary magnitude-3.8 earthquake was reported Tuesday near Indio after a day of shaking in the Riverside County community. The quake late Tuesday morning, initially listed at magnitude-3.6, was ...

Two more earthquakes rattled northwestern Nevada in the early hours of Friday, the second-largest and seventh-largest of a swarm that has lasted for three weeks. A 4.1 quake hit at 1:15 a.m. about 18 ...

Two major earthquakes occurred in Venezeula on June 24, the first a magnitude 7.2 and the second a magnitude 7.5 a minute later. It is estimated that thousands of people have died and several thousand ...

Two of the most dangerous fault systems on the U.S. West Coast may be more connected than scientists once thought. New research suggests the Cascadia subduction zone and the San Andreas fault can ...