earthquake

UPDATE 6:48 - There are now reports of two earthquakes striking the Southcoast within minutes of each other. The first quake is reported by the United States Geological Survey as a M2.4 earthquake, originating at 5:46pm 1.5 miles SSW of New Bedford...

Thursday's earthquake was less than a footnote in seismic history, but it certainly has people talking. The 1.9 magnitude quake was felt throughout New Bedford, Fairhaven, Mattapoisett, and other Southcoast communities. Dr. John Ebel, a geophysicist at the Weston Observatory at Boston College says while the area dodged a bullet, we're not immune to a damaging earthquake...

Update 12:19pm:   A minor earthquake has struck southeastern Massachusetts, but there were no immediate reports of damage. John Ebel, a senior research scientist at Boston College's Weston Observatory, said the earthquake that struck seven miles north-northwest of New Bedford just before 11 a.m. T...

Another strong earthquake has rattled a remote and sparsely populated Aleutian Island region off Alaska.

A seemingly strong earthquake is shaking Mexico's capital. There is no immediate word of damage or casualties and seismologists have not yet issued a calculation of its power or epicenter.

A 7.8 Magnitude earthquake hit Iran on Tuesday, near the Pakistan border.

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck Cape Ann, off our MA coast, in 1755. Not even the 5.8 quake that struck Virginia in 2011 surpassed it.

A small tsunami was all that came of a warning issued late Tuesday (US eastern standard time). Now it is presumed that many are missing or dead in the South pacific.

Just a year ago Japan was rocked by a huge earthquake, and then a massive tsunami that took many lives. Now, that same area has been hit again.

You never get surprised about things that happen in and around New Bedford, but did an earthquake just pass through the area?