A new analysis of earthquake rupture directivity provides essential insights for seismic hazard and risk assessments in urban ...

A conveyor belt more than 40 miles long runs from tiny Kermit, Texas, across state borders into Lea County, New Mexico.

Seismologists describe potential damage forecasts from ground shaking scenarios for moderate earthquakes in three regions of the Mexico City basin.

The commission asked oil and gas companies to stop injecting wastewater underground, but Blackbuck Resources claims that its well could not be responsible for seismic activity.

An earthquake shook parts of West Texas Friday afternoon with a preliminary magnitude of 4.8, according to the United States Geological Survey. The earthquake was recorded about 16 miles southwest ...

Updated information from the USGS shows a 4.8M quake with a depth of about four miles occurred at 1:33 p.m. in Martin County.

ACKERLY, Texas — Two earthquakes occurred in Ackerly, Texas Friday, northeast of Midland, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). At 1:33 p.m., a 4.8 magnitude earthquake hit ...

ACKERLY, Texas — A 4.8 magnitude earthquake was reported southwest of Ackerly, Texas Friday, which is northeast of Midland, according to United States Geological Survey (USGS). At 1:33 p.m., the ...

A light, 4.8-magnitude earthquake struck in Texas on Friday ... also prompt U.S.G.S. scientists to update the shake-severity map. An aftershock is usually a smaller earthquake that follows ...

The US has been rattled by three earthquakes in less than 12 hours. Texas, Oregon and Washington ... states are located on or near many active fault zones, including the Cascadia Subduction ...

The state's largest measles outbreak in 30 years has been largely tied to a Mennonite community in rural West Texas. Earlier this month, Lara Anton, a spokesperson for the Texas Department of ...