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

In reality, Chile has experienced hundreds of significant earthquakes from 1570 to 2015, 29 of which are considered severe (above magnitude 8). Among them are the aforementioned earthquakes of 1575 ...

So did residents in Peru and Brazil. However no injuries were reported outside Chile. A major earthquake just offshore rattled Chileans, killing at least five people and shaking the earth so ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

A 3.8 magnitude earthquake shook the same area last Monday, and another 2.0 magnitude quake happened on Wednesday. Experts ...

The vast majority of earthquakes strike inside the Ring of Fire, a string of volcanoes and tectonic activity that wraps ...

An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck Antofagasta, Chile on Thursday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. The quake was at a depth of 104 km (64.62 miles), EMSC added. There ...

The scale also has no upper limit. The largest recorded earthquake occurred along the subduction zone in Chile in 1960. It was a magnitude 9.5 but larger earthquakes may be possible. Fortunately, ...

Some 3,800 years ago a massive 9.5-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami with waves as high as 20 metres (66 feet) slammed the coastline of Chile’s Atacama Desert, the world’s driest ...