Alfred Wegener published his proposal that continents had moved. He presented various lines of evidence, of which the best remembered is the fact that the opposite shores of the ...

In 1863, a Russian paleontologist and mining engineer made his way through the Eocene strata of the Caucasus to the shores of ...

A magnitude 2.8 earthquake rattled the Short Pump area northwest of Richmond on Tuesday evening, with people as far away as ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan issued a tsunami advisory on Monday after a magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck the southwest of the country.

The quake was centered just offshore of Kyushu, about 7 miles east of the coastal town of Miyazaki, about 520 miles southwest ...

Just north of San Diego, along the La Jolla coastline, there’s a series of cliffside caves guarded by an assortment sea ...

A 3.5-magnitude earthquake near Concord in the East Bay shook the area on Sunday, two days after a quake of similar magnitude ...

Pillemer, who is also the author of "Fault Lines: Fractured Families and How to Mend Them," suggests that you find a non-invasive way to communicate that you are open to reconciling. "Avoid ...

Search for survivors has ended after the magnitude 7.1 earthquake in Tibet killed at least 126 and wounded dozens.

The earthquake in Tibet not only caused significant destruction but also intensified concerns about the safety of the ...

Dwarfed by drought, the warming climate and other, more immediate environmental threats, earthquakes aren’t at the forefront ...

Katherine Watt is a CNET Money writer focusing on mortgages, home equity and banking. She previously wrote about personal finance for NextAdvisor. Based in New York, Katherine graduated summa cum ...