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Shallow Magnitude 5.3 Quake Strikes Near Susanville Late Tuesday

USGS rates the risk of serious damage as low following extensive but mostly weak shaking.

115-Million-Year-Old Australian Fossil Reveals Early Emergence of Giant Oceanic Sharks

Record-Deep Arctic Gas Hydrate Seeps Teeming With Life Confirmed at Molloy Ridge

Etna Eases After First Northeast Crater Paroxysms in 28 Years

Magnitude 3.1–3.2 Quake Shakes Central Kentucky Without Damage

Magnitude 5.0 Earthquake Rattles Susanville Area in Northern California

Magnitude-7.0 Offshore Quake Shakes Northern Taiwan With Limited Damage

Magnitude 6.2 Earthquake Strikes Offshore Northern Peru

Deepest Methane Hydrate Seeps Found in Arctic, Teeming With Life

San Ramon Logs 300-Plus Quakes in Ongoing Swarm as USGS Sees No Sign of Major Fault Rupture

Kīlauea Marks One Year of Eruption With 39th Summit Fountaining Episode Reaching 1,400 Feet

Ancient Salt Yields First Direct Mesoproterozoic CO2, Indicating a Mild 1.4-Billion-Year Climate

Scientists Confirm Deepest Gas Hydrate Seep in Arctic at 3,640 Meters

Yellowstone Webcam Captures New ‘Dirty Eruption’ at Black Diamond Pool

San Ramon Earthquake Swarm Persists With 4.0 and 3.9 Quakes as Scientists Urge Caution

Magnitude 6.5 Quake Strikes Near Goroka, Papua New Guinea

Hidden 20-Kilometer Rock Layer Under Bermuda Offers Answer to Island’s Puzzling Uplift

Rapid Earthquake Swarm Rattles San Ramon With Two Magnitude 4.0 Quakes

Rains Turn Iran’s Hormuz ‘Red Beach’ Coastline Crimson in Striking Natural Event

Titan May Lack a Global Ocean, Cassini Reanalysis Points to a Slushy Interior With Isolated Water Pockets