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

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 ...

The Fukushima nuclear power plant was damaged when a magnitude 9 earthquake, followed by a tsunami, struck Japan in 2011, which resulted in the nuclear disaster.

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

A magnitude 4.9 earthquake hit off the coast of Claveria, Masbate on Saturday morning, the Philippine Institute of ...

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake has struck off the coast of Vanuatu. The earthquake was recorded at 11.09am on Monday near Port Vila, Vanuatu's harbourside capital and main hub on the island of Efate.

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 ...

(KABC) -- A 3.6-magnitude earthquake rattled San Bernardino - the third quake to hit the area Monday. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the latest quake struck around 9:58 p.m. about 3 ...

PETROLIA, Calif. – A magnitude 4.1 earthquake shook some Northern California communities early Tuesday morning. According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), a magnitude 4.1 earthquake was ...