In 1638, an earthquake in what is now New Hampshire and Plymouth, Massachusetts, left colonists stumbling from the strong ...

Federal cuts to the U.S. Geological Survey have prompted fears of losing vital information on earthquake activity and ...

A large earthquake has shaken Southern California. The United States Geological Survey said the quake happened 4 kilometers ...

SAN DIEGO — (AP) — Southern California was rocked by a strong earthquake Monday morning near San Diego. The earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 5.2 and was near the mountain town of Julian, east ...

While disaster can strike at any time, an unusual number of tragic events seem to take place on a few inauspicious days in April. Eerie coincidence?

Dawn Ebbetts, 71, of Exeter, said she wanted to take it all in when she ran her first Boston Marathon last year.

Pope Francis visited Rome’s central prison Thursday and met with dozens of inmates as he kept an Easter season appointment to ...

The eight-day extravaganza kicks off April 23 and stretches across Greater Boston’s most beautiful independent movie theaters ...

A 5.2-magnitude earthquake shook Southern California on Monday morning, swaying lights and rattling cups off shelves, but ...

The quake was felt from San Diego to Los Angeles, 120 miles (193 kilometers) away. It sent boulders tumbling onto rural roads in San Diego County and knocked items off store shelves in the tiny ...

MIAMI (AP) — A U.S. citizen was arrested in Florida for allegedly being in the country illegally and held for pickup by ...