Minor quakes can disrupt natural tectonic patterns deep underground and change stress landscape, new study finds ...

Researchers found that a potential powerful earthquake combined with rising sea levels could lead to a mega tsunami.

Volcanoes and earthquake activity often occur in similar places in narrow zones of activity, as shown on the map. These zones ... also highly active in terms of earthquakes. About 90 per cent ...

The East Tennessee Seismic Zone is an active one, even if it isn't known to produce quakes strong enough to be catastrophic. The most recent one centered near Greenback fits that pattern ...

A LARGE PART OF TENNESSEE, EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND NORTHERN GEORGIA ARE IN THE EAST TENNESSEE SEISMIC ZONE, WHILE CENTRAL KENTUCKY ISN’T NECESSARILY IN A SEISMIC ZONE. AS FOR WHAT THIS MEANS ...

Two minor earthquakes rattled parts of Kentucky over the weekend. Seth Carpenter is a seismologist with the Kentucky ...

Middle Tennessee sits between two major zones for earthquakes, including the East Tennessee Seismic Zone and the New Madrid Seismic Zone. The East Tennessee Seismic Zone stretches from ...

A 2.8 magnitude earthquake registered in central Kentucky early May 11. A 4.1 magnitude earthquake that originated in Tennessee a day before was also felt in the Bluegrass State. The Kentucky ...