On average Australia experiences more than 100 low-level earthquakes each year. A 5.9 magnitude earthquake in Mansfield, Victoria in 2021 was one of the largest onshore quakes recorded in the sta ...

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 ...

Elephants at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park were captured on camera instinctively circling younger elephants in what’s called an “alert circle” during the 5.2-magnitude earthquake that hit ...