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

One of the largest earthquakes ever reported in New England happened off the coast of Massachusetts near Cape Ann in 1755. Historians and seismologists estimate the earthquake's magnitude at ...

When you think about earthquakes, Florida’s probably not the first state that comes to mind. But that doesn't mean they can't ...

The largest earthquake ever recorded within the park struck close to Norris Geyser Basin in 1975. That earthquake was a magnitude 6, but there was little damage and no injuries reported at the time, ...

which did a lot of damage.” The largest earthquake ever recorded in or off the coast of Maine was in 1907, where a 5.7-magnitude quake occurred in extreme Downeast Maine, within Passamaquoddy Bay.

The last major quake to shake Maine was a 3.3 magnitude one on Jan. 14, 2023. The largest earthquake ever to hit Maine was over a century ago — at a magnitude 5.7 in 1904. Today’s tremor is ...

is one of the deepest and largest earthquakes ever recorded. The earthquake took place within the Izu-Bonin subduction zone 680 kilometers below the Earth’s surface. The mechanisms behind deep ...

It is the largest earthquake ever to hit Japan. The combined total of confirmed deaths and missing is more than 22,000 (nearly 20,000 deaths and 2,500 missing). Deaths were caused by the initial ...

is one of the deepest and largest earthquakes ever recorded. The earthquake took place within the Izu-Bonin subduction zone 680 kilometers below the Earth's surface. The mechanisms behind deep ...