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 ...

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 ...

Earthquakes of this size aren't unusual for Yellowstone, due to its proximity to the Intermountain Seismic Belt, a region of ... to the tallest geyser in the world, Steamboat, which sprays hot ...

Scientists say this belt of the ... a devastating earthquake in 1991 in the Garhwal region, that killed over 700 people. The district lies in Zone IV of India’s seismic map, meaning it is ...

"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 ...

SANTORINI, Greece (AP) — Earthquakes rattled Greece’s volcanic ... It also announced a digital platform — mysafetyplan.gov.gr — with maps showing areas designated as safe gathering points ...

The latest 5.2 magnitude quake was off the coast of Santorini (Map: Metro ... lies in a highly seismically active part of the world and earthquakes are frequent. Seismic activity in the region ...