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

(CNN) — Here’s a look at the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in March of 2011. March 11, 2011 – At 2:46 p.m., a 9.1 magnitude earthquake takes place 231 miles northeast of Tokyo at ...

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 ...

a victim of the magnitude-9.0 quake and tsunami that struck northeastern Japan in March 2011. "The Great Hanshin Earthquake is the starting point of Japan's earthquake disasters, as the know-how ...

Such a jolt could potentially have a devastating 8 to 9 ... magnitude, trigger colossal tsunamis, kill several hundred thousand people and cause billions of dollars in damage, experts say. The ...

On March 11, a catastrophic 9.1 magnitude megathrust earthquake just 45 miles east of Japan rumbled for six minutes, pushing waves of up to 133 feet nearly 440 miles per hour as it hit the country.

The magnitude 7.9 Bonin Islands earthquake sequence in May 2015, which ruptured deep within the earth near the base of the upper mantle, did not include an aftershock that extended to record depths ...