A swarm of at least a dozen earthquakes reaching up to magnitude 3.9 rattled San Ramon near San Francisco, the U.S. Geological Survey reports. The other quakes in the Saturday, Dec. 21, swarm ranged from magnitude 1.3 to 3.0, according to the USGS.

A second minor earthquake has hit a Lancashire village in as many weeks, the British Geological Survey (BGS) has said. It happened earlier at 05:03 GMT with the epicentre of the 2.5 magnitude tremor located to off the coast of Silverdale, in Morecambe Bay.

A swarm of earthquakes rattled the Bay Area on the evening of Friday, December 19. The earthquakes occurred over a 30-minute span, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. There have been no reports of damage or casualties, and no tsunami warnings have been issued as of reporting.

Belief in “earthquake weather" is common, especially in California, but scientists are clear that there is no such thing.

A preliminary magnitude-?? earthquake was reported… Whether you feel shaking from an earthquake largely depends on three major factors — magnitude, distance and local soil conditions. Magnitude refers to the strength of the quake.

Cupertino City Council set aside the first sum of money toward a multi-million-dollar renovation of a building deemed at risk in the face of earthquakes.

The largest known earthquake to hit the state, with a magnitude of 5.1, occurred in northern Shelby County in 1916, according to the Geological Survey of Alabama. The second biggest was a 4.9 magnitude earthquake in Escambia County in 1997.

Tremors of an earthquake were felt on Sunday in Haryana as the calamity hit Rohtak. The magnitude of the quake was 3.3 on the Richter scale.