The Pacific Northwest boasts an extensive network of more than 600 seismic monitoring stations that help researchers track ...

MELBOURNE, Australia -- A magnitude-6.6 earthquake struck in the South Pacific near the island nation of Samoa on Friday, but ...

The quake occurred 440 kilometres (273 miles) southwest of the capital Apia at a depth of 314 kilometres (195 miles), the US Geological Survey said.

Japan's weather agency said Friday that a malfunction in the ocean-floor observation system off the Pacific coast, installed ...

Damage risk is heightened by the possibility, perhaps 50:50, of a local tsunami being generated, depending only on the ...

A magnitude-6.6 earthquake struck near the South Pacific island nation of Samoa on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of injury or damage. The quake struck late m ...

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