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Magnitude 3.5 Earthquake Strikes North of Big Bear Late Saturday

USGS reports light shaking with no injuries or damage.

Magnitude 6.0 Earthquake Strikes Offshore East of Honshu, Japan

New Analysis Finds Asteroid Belt’s Active Mass Shrinking by 0.0088% Per Million Years

Cassini Reanalysis Finds Complex Organics in Fresh Enceladus Plume Grains

Fresh Enceladus Plume Grains Reveal Ocean-Derived Complex Organics

Philippines Quake Death Toll Rises to 72 as Cebu Declares State of Calamity

Kīlauea’s Latest Summit Episode Sends Dual Lava Fountains to 1,300 Feet, Then Subsides

Chang'e-6 Rocks Reveal Cooler Lunar Far-Side Mantle by About 100°C

Ferric Hydroxysulfate Identified on Mars, Hinting at Amazonian Geothermal and Volcanic Activity

New Chemical Fossils Strengthen Case That Sponges Were Earth’s Earliest Animals

Backyard Bluff Collapse in Rancho Palos Verdes Damages Yards but Spares Homes

Sponge Biomarkers Found in Ediacaran Rocks Bolster Case for Earliest Animals

Viral Audio Recreates Earth’s Ancient Magnetic Flip From ESA Swarm Data

USGS Tracks Steady Seismic Activity: M5.9 Off Oregon and M6+ Shocks in Venezuela

Australian 'Ananguites' Point to a Giant 11-Million-Year-Old Impact With No Known Crater

Magnitude 5.6 Quake Strikes Gansu’s Longxi, Emergency Response Underway

Eurhinosaurus Mistelgauensis: New Ichthyosaur Species Described From Bavaria

Oklahoma Family Finds 2.79-Carat Brown Diamond at Arkansas’ Crater of Diamonds

Japan Widens Nankai Trough Megaquake Risk to 60%–94.5% Over 30 Years

Magnitude 5.9 Earthquake Strikes Off Oregon Coast With No Tsunami Threat