A second earthquake in just three days was detected off the coast of New England early Wednesday morning.The United States ...

The US Geological Survey said this quake, whose epicenter was about 7 miles from southern Maine’s coastal town of York, was ...

Scientists understand these kinds of earthquakes well, which include those stemming from the San Andreas Fault in California and the East Anatolian Fault in Turkey. However, earthquakes can also ...

"These kinds of earthquakes are relatively unusual," Coulson said. "They don't happen so frequently as we would expect in places like California, where we're on a boundary between two tectonic plates.

Maine is not typically associated with significant seismic activity, making Monday's earthquake all the more unusual. Most ...

students learn about different types of seismic waves on the basis of where and how the waves move. In addition, students discuss how scientists use earthquake waves to investigate the interior ...

Earthquakes happen every day all over the world, along both tectonic plate edges and interiors. Earthquakes occur along faults, which are fractures between blocks of rock that allow the blocks to move ...

Experts from UNH explain how rare the 3.8 magnitude earthquake was and the likelihood of significant aftershocks.

"These kinds of earthquakes are relatively unusual," Coulson said. "They don't happen so frequently as we would expect in places like California, where we're on a boundary between two tectonic ...