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

A strong magnitude 6.4 earthquake hit 41 km from Molina, Maule in central Chile, at 8:38 p.m. local time on Friday, December 13, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

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 ...

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 successive earthquakes that hit Santorini overnight, many of which exceeded 4 Richter, caused panic in Rodrigo and Leslie ...

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, ...