SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, CA - Thursday morning, a 2.5 magnitude quake was detected close to Rialto, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

A swarm of more than 1,350 earthquakes shook Mount Rainier this summer. USGS scientists took a closer look. Here’s what they found.

The recent, small earthquakes that rattled the New York metro area serve as a reminder that seismic activity does occur in the region.

SAN MATEO COUNTY, CA - Tuesday afternoon, a preliminary 2.5 magnitude quake was detected near Woodside, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

On Thursday night, a second earthquake was reported by the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The quake’s magnitude was 2.6, and a depth of 5 km, or about 3.1 miles. It happened at 8:02 p.m. according to the USGS.

Since Thursday, at least 131 earthquakes have been recorded — as small as magnitude 0.2 and as big as magnitude 4 — in the Geysers geothermal steam field in Sonoma and Lake counties.

More than 100 small earthquakes have been recorded near the Geysers geothermal field in Northern California since just after midnight Thursday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

A tiny mountain town in North Carolina has seen three earthquakes over four days, and it appears to be part of a trend in 2025, U.S. Geological Survey data shows. Rosman, with a population of about 750, had two quakes on Saturday, Aug. 9, and the third came Tuesday, Aug. 12, the USGS says.

The USGS is reporting a third earthquake, this one the strongest, in the past 24 hours in Deep East Texas.A magnitude 3.2 was recorded 3.5 miles west-southwest of Huxley and 43.5 miles east-northeast of Nacogdoches at 9:02 p.

A 2.7-magnitude earthquake was recorded the morning of Aug. 14 near Columbus, North Carolina, and people are reporting they felt it more than 85 miles away, the U.S. Geological Survey says.

An earthquake swarm in Northern California early Thursday was another round of recurring temblors in a seismically active region home to the world's largest geothermal field.