Twenty-five-year-old Hakima walks through her destroyed village with her two children — including her 6-month-old daughter, Nasifa — in Chahak, Injil District, western Afghanistan. According to Hakima ...

A small earthquake rumbled through western New York early Monday, alarming people in a region unaccustomed to such shaking but apparently causing no significant damage. The U.S. Geological Survey ...

The “Earthquake House” by architect David Ming-Li Lowe in Los Angeles, one of the only residential homes built on shock-absorbing dampers to protect against earthquakes, is back on the market with a ...

Civil engineer Joseph Schmitt was driving when the East Coast quaked on Friday morning. He did not feel the shaking; but his wife, at their home in Stony Brook, did. The magnitude 4.8 earthquake that ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP/WNCN) — A 4.1-magnitude earthquake five miles from the North Carolina border in Tennessee woke up families and rattled homes as far away as Charlotte as it spread tremors across ...

North Jersey residents were rattled Friday morning by a 4.8 magnitude earthquake that quite literally shook everybody up from New Jersey to New York, Washington D.C., Boston and the surrounding areas.

RIO DELL — Jacqui McIntosh’s nearly three-month wait to sell her quaint, century-old logging home here ended in a moment of sheer terror. She was supposed to get ...

The recent New Jersey earthquake (a 4.8 on April 5) has led to people sharing videos of the Big Brother house going through earthquakes. Since the Big Brother house is located in California, it isn’t ...

A team of engineers in Buffalo, N.Y., recently built a house on a shake table — a device that can simulate an earthquake. They wanted to see how a typical wood-frame house would fare in a quake. The ...

A 3.8-magnitude earthquake hit near Buffalo at 6:15 a.m. today, rattling houses and waking up Western New Yorkers. “It felt like a car hit my house in Buffalo,” tweeted Erie County Executive Mark ...

If you felt that, you're not alone. A 4.8-magnitude earthquake shook up the region shortly before 10:30 a.m. Friday, followed by two aftershocks of magnitude 2 at 11:20 a.m. and magnitude 2.2 at 1:32 ...