Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. Santa Barbara, CA – This year, Santa Barbara is commemorating the 100th anniversary of the earthquake that changed the course ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In case you missed it, there was an earthquake in Lake Michigan miles off of Wisconsin's shoreline — a very uncommon event in the ...

People all across the Bay Area will dive under desks on Thursday morning at 10:16 am to take cover. That’s not a prediction of a major earthquake. Rather, it’s part of increasingly popular statewide ...

Most of Earth's seismic activity comes and goes without most people even realizing it. However, certain events are so forceful that their effects can be felt from thousands of miles away. You can even ...