Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

Earthquakes excite the Earth’s subsurface over a small area, and waves of energy then propagate through the solid earth. Depending on the depth of the waves and the materials they encounter, they can ...

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A substantial earthquake of magnitude 7.6 struck in the Caribbean Sea southwest of the Cayman Islands. Occurring at 6:23 pm ...

A massive meteor strike on Mars sent shockwaves across the planet, revealing that some of its tremors weren’t tectonic but ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.6 occurred on Saturday in the Caribbean Sea, according to the US Geological Survey, ...

A powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck the Caribbean Saturday evening, about 130 miles southwest of the Cayman Islands, ...

Signs of the core’s deformation appeared in waves from earthquakes that were strong enough to reach Earth’s center. The research team used that same earthquake data for a 2024 study to resolve ...

The powerful quake, which struck 10 km below the Earth's surface, prompted the National Weather Service (NWS) Tsunami Warning ...

Late Saturday evening a powerful earthquake struck in the middle of the Caribbean sea. More details with Meteorologist ...

“When earthquake waves (shaking) reach the surface, they can be transferred to the air and become sound waves,” Coulson said in an email Monday afternoon. “Then we can often hear the sound ...