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

Earthquakes are natural phenomena characterized by the sudden shaking of the Earth’s surface. They result from the release of ...

Earthquakes can build mountains or tear a continent apart. The places where pieces of crust move against each other are called fault lines, and scientists monitor fault lines to measure earthquakes.

The greater Los Angeles area has long been the subject of intense seismographic monitoring. A network of highly sensitive ...

The Greek island has a long history of earthquakes, but what is causing the recent series of quakes has scientists perplexed.

Santorini, and other Greek islands in the region, are in the middle of an "unprecedented" seismic swarm or crisis - the name ...

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

Earthquakes excite the Earth’s subsurface over a small area, and waves of energy then propagate through the solid earth. Depending on the depth of the waves and the materials they encounter, they can ...

"We've put all our mattresses ... Experts also do not know whether this chain of quakes are foreshocks leading up to a large earthquake or their own event. Professor Joanna Faure Walker, an ...