Then, in just a few seconds all this energy is released generating a massive earthquake and sometimes flexing the seafloor to create a tsunami. ”Off western Sumatra the bow is drawn tight.

The depth of the earthquake was more than eight miles underground, according to the USGS. There was no tsunami threat to New England, the U.S. National Tsunami Warning Center reported.

Twenty years after an Indian Ocean tsunami killed thousands, Riley Kehoe recalls the terror she felt as a girl facing a ...

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The quake was centered 10 kilometers southeast of York Harbor, Maine. A 3.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of New England on Monday morning with shaking felt in Portsmouth, New ...

People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 hit Guam around 3:48 p.m. Tuesday, based on U.S. Geological Survey data. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there's “no tsunami threat to ...

Within 20 minutes, waves of water began to hit the coasts of surrounding islands. In Indonesia's Aceh province in Northern Sumatra, waves reached 167 feet and caused floods for three miles. Following ...

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Parts of New Jersey were rattled by an earthquake on Friday afternoon, according to the USGS. The USGS says the earthquake happened in Bergen County, between Paramus and River Edge. Back on April ...

Koya Ayodeji, a 25-year-old A 500 level Business Education undergraduate of the Olabisi Onabanjo University Ago Iwoye Ogun State has been arrested for allegedly stabbing his roommate, Ayobami Ajayi, a ...