Those that we do feel, like Jan. 28’s 4.1 earthquake off the coast of York, are rarely destructive. Geologists use the modified Mercalli Intensity Scale to gauge how severe the shaking and other ...

The S.C. Emergency Management Division said Wednesday morning’s earthquake was classified as a micro quake, according to the Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale. No major damage or injuries have ...

Shaking categories are based on the Modified Mercalli Intensity scale. When aftershock data is available, the corresponding maps and charts include earthquakes within 100 miles and seven days of ...

Archeologists in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried by ash and lava in 70 AD, unearthed a private bathhouse built over 2,000 years ago, officials said Friday. The discovery includes sumptuous ...

Shaking categories are based on the Modified Mercalli Intensity scale. When aftershock data is available, the corresponding maps and charts include earthquakes within 100 miles and seven days of ...

The eruption of Vesuvius buried Pompeii and nearby Herculaneum in ash. Unfortunately, Pompeii’s location where the African and Eurasian tectonic plates meet also make it prone to earthquakes and ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The baths were unearthed in the so-called Regio IX, a large central area of Pompeii still unexplored where ...

As of Tuesday, more than 1,000 earthquakes, with magnitudes up to 5.2 on the Richter scale, had been recorded near the island, most of them centered only about 15 miles from its shores in the ...

The largest earthquake so far was a magnitude 5, which struck 21 miles (34 kilometers) northeast of Santorini at 2:27 p.m. local time (7.27 a.m. EST), according to the University of Athens ...