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

On 11 March, 2011, a magnitude-9.0 earthquake sent a tsunami hurtling towards Japan's east coast, killing 20,000 people, ...

Seismic monitoring wasn't as widespread back then, but scientists estimate this devastating quake had a magnitude of ... earthquakes. Skyscrapers in quake-prone places, like Chile and Japan ...

On March 11, 2011, a magnitude-9.0 earthquake sent a tsunami hurtling towards Japan's east coast, killing 20,000 people, wiping out 120,000 buildings and sparking a partial meltdown at the Fukushima ...

7.6 magnitude earthquake shakes Caribbean southwest of Cayman Islands, USGS says ...

What is the collective noun for a group of volcano scientists? While some tongue-in-cheek responses might be “an eruption of volcanologists” or “a swarm of seismologists,” we’ll stick to “an assembly ...

Saitama Prefecture officials said the search for a missing 74-year-old truck stuck in a large sinkhole shifted to an ...

Feb. 8 (UPI) -- The PlayStation Network was restored Saturday, more than 24 hours after a worldwide outage. PlayStation, ...

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake has struck near the coast of Vanuatu, just weeks after a quake killed more than a dozen people in the island country. Monday’s quake struck just after 11am about 65km ...

After initial reports of a magnitude of 4.1. – and then 3.9 – earthquake striking the area, it was later confirmed that a 3.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of New England on Monday ...

A Tsunami Advisory was in effect for Puerto Rico and nearby islands for part of Saturday evening after a powerful earthquake ...