Recently, the people of the city of Kolkata witnessed the earthquake for a short time; individuals ran out of high-rise offices to the streets in panic.

Earthquakes are becoming increasingly frequent. On Sunday morning, four earthquakes struck parts of India, Myanmar, and Tajikistan within just one hour, sending tremors across central and South Asia.

An earthquake rattled much of the Northeast on Friday morning, with shaking felt across the New York City metropolitan area and in communities from Baltimore and Philadelphia up through New England.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. About 55 earthquakes a day – 20,000 a year – are recorded by the National Earthquake Information Center. Most are tiny and barely ...

(Corrects paragraph 5 of Feb 27 story to make clear that a magnitude 7.0 quake releases 1,000 times more energy than a magnitude 5.0, not 900) Feb 27 (Reuters) - A massive magnitude-8.8 earthquake ...