An earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale struck the Paphos sea area overnight, according to announcements on Wednesday. Residents reported they felt tremors in low-lying Paphos communities ...

MANILA, Philippines — Two earthquakes with a magnitude 5.3 and 4.9 struck the waters of Jomalig, Quezon, and were felt in parts of Luzon Wednesday morning, the Philippine Institute of ...

A magnitude 5.3 earthquake hit Jomalig, Quezon on Wednesday morning, PHIVOLCS said. The monitoring agency said the earthquake of tectonic origin, earlier reported at magnitude 5.6, struck the town at ...

As we report today in Nature Geoscience, the answer likely has to do with the unusual electrical properties of quartz – and what happens when an earthquake puts it under pressure. Quartz is what ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A magnitude 4.2 earthquake struck off the coast of Oregon Monday morning, according to the United States Geological Survey. Officials said the quake happened around 10 a ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A magnitude 5.5 earthquake rocked east Taiwan at 4:26 p.m. on Monday (Sept. 2), according to the Central Weather Administration (CWA). No injuries or damage from the earthquake ...

A 4.2 magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of Oregon Monday morning, according to the USGS. Earthquake Alerts said the quake happened just after 10 a.m. The location was 130 miles west of Bandon ...

Now, a new study published today in Nature Geoscience has come up with a convincing, and surprising, answer: electricity, and earthquakes—lots of them. Those nuggets owe their existence to the ...

Solid gold bars stacked in bank vaults, layers of plating on this summer’s Olympic medals or even your own pieces of golden jewelry could owe their existence to earthquakes. The stress and ...

Geologists have known for decades that gold forms in quartz with the help of earthquakes, but now they have worked out exactly how the setting and seismic waves combine to form large nuggets.