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

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

The Valdivia earthquake, which struck Chile on May 22, 1960. Seismic monitoring wasn't as widespread back then, but scientists estimate this devastating quake had a magnitude of 9.5. The largest ...

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake shook buildings in Taiwan on Thursday morning, as a series of temblors hit the island, causing little damage but possibly portending more seismic activity in the near future ...

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 ...

YORK, ME. (WWLP) – Another earthquake shook Maine on Sunday, the third in the same area in just the past week. The earthquake ...

Around 10:30 p.m. on February 10, a 3.3 magnitude earthquake shook parts of North Idaho near the cities of Mullan and Wallace ...

Alex de Steiguer was about to send an email from a house on Star Island, 7 miles off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire, when she heard what she thought was a big plane flying over. Outside, a flock ...

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake shook buildings in Taiwan on Thursday morning, as a series of temblors hit the island, causing little damage but possibly portending more seismic activity in the near future ...