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A 5.4-magnitude earthquake was reported in Alaska on Wednesday (July 16), according to the United States Geological Survey.
Wednesday’s magnitude 7.3 earthquake off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands chain struck in a region that has experienced a handful of powerful quakes within the last five years ...
Ground shaking was strongest in Sand Point, with reports of "objects flying out of the pantry and off of shelves," noted the ...
The fireball is presumed to be from a meteor fragmenting in the sky, according to meteorologists and other experts.
Aftershocks from devastating earthquakes in the 1800s near the Missouri-Kentucky border and in Charleston, South Carolina, may still be occurring, a study found.
The researchers found that approximately 30% of all earthquakes from 1980 to 2016 near the Missouri-Kentucky border, all magnitude 2.5 or greater, were likely aftershocks from the three major ...