Centuries-old monasteries have been damaged by an ongoing series of earthquakes in a secluded monastic community in northern ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan was struck by a 5.9 magnitude earthquake Tuesday evening, the United States Geological Survey reported. The earthquake was detected about 71 kilometers (44.1 miles) south ...

A 2.9-magnitude earthquake shook Western Washington on Tuesday, June 3, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The 5.4-mile ...

SEATTLE — In one of the nation’s first wrongful-death claims seeking to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable for its role in the changing climate, a Washington state woman is suing seven ...

Western Nepal experienced a series of three earthquakes on Wednesday, yet no damage has been reported. The tremors had magnitudes ranging from 4.1 to 4.4 and occurred in the Kaski and Bajhang ...

City officials pledged bargaining support. Approximately 1,200 Operational Student Employees (OSEs) at Western Washington University walked off the job Wednesday morning to strike for union ...

A recent study by Virginia Tech geoscientists published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences estimates that there’s a 15 percent chance of a magnitude 8.0 earthquake hitting ...

Senior seismologist Trevor Allen labelled the seismic event a "significant earthquake" and confirmed hundreds of people had reported feeling the quake . A 5.2 magnitude quake hit parts of western ...

Geoscience Australia says two earthquakes — the largest a magnitude 5.2 — happened in the state's west early today. The agency received about 250 "felt" reports, some from more than 500 ...

ATHENS, Greece — An undersea 6.1-magnitude earthquake scale struck off the Greek island of Crete early Thursday and was felt across the Aegean Sea, but there were no immediate reports of ...

A magnitude-4.2 earthquake rumbled just offshore of the Big Island of Hawaii on Tuesday morning, but officials said no tsunamis were expected. The earthquake was about 5 miles southeast of the ...

SEATTLE — Abnormal snowmelt is sweeping across Washington state and much of the West, with rapid snowpack depletion raising concerns about future drought conditions, wildfire risk and water ...