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An earthquake was felt in part of north-west England on Wednesday night. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was recorded shortly ...

Global distribution of natural and induced seismicity. Natural earthquakes with moment magnitude higher than 5 are color-coded according to their hypocenter depth (upper right colorbar, U.S.

Earth's crust is the planet's outermost layer. It is made of solid rock and sits on top of another layer, called the mantle.