Lori Dengler is looking for your stories of unique observations around quakes. "I’ve heard of strange smells before, during, or after quakes, headaches, wells suddenly going dry or overflowing, and ...

The Greek poet Crinagoras of Mytilene (1st century BC–1st century AD) once addressed a little poem to an earthquake. He asked the quake not to destroy his house: "Earthquake, most dread of all shocks ...

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.