T he update was released last year. The color-coded map shows a range of earthquake probability across the U.S. Well known high-risk areas, such as California and Alaska, are coded in dark red ...

Additional information collected about the earthquake may also prompt U.S.G.S. scientists to update the shake-severity map. An aftershock is usually a smaller earthquake that follows a larger one ...

Earlier this month, an earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck northern Osaka, killing 5 people and injuring more than 300. A government panel has released its latest earthquake probability map, which ...