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

There are two other "earthquake belts" where most of the rest of the ... Networks of seismographs all around the world are constantly working to record ground motion. Some use GPS, like the ...

"While commonly plotted as points on maps, earthquakes of this size are more appropriately described as slip over a larger fault area. Strike-slip-faulting events of the size of the February 8 ...

A powerful 7.6 magnitude earthquake has sent shockwaves through the Caribbean Sea, prompting a dozen islands to be on high alert for potential tsunami waves since Saturday. Both Puerto Rico and ...

A series of small earthquakes shook the San Francisco Bay Area on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey.

A major, 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck in the Caribbean Sea on Saturday and triggered a tsunami advisory in Puerto Rico and ...

The Greek island of Santorini was struck by the latest in a string of earthquakes Tuesday, this time a 4.8 temblor. The ...

The epicenter for all the quakes was about one mile east of Hayward, in San Francisco’s East Bay, according to the U.S.

Authorities have declared a state of emergency on a second Greek island as a series of earthquakes continued to rattle the ...

From late July to October 2022, residents of the Manu'a Islands in American Samoa felt the earth shake several times a day, ...