A 5.6-magnitude earthquake was reported near the U.S. Virgin Islands on Sunday (May 4), according to the United States ...

The earthquake was centered in Whites City at a depth of 7.5 kilometers (about 4.7 miles). The USGS said it received 1,589 ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency has a unique seismic scale called shindo that measures the degree of shaking in the event of an earthquake. This set of numbers — ranging from 0 to 7 — is ...