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

"It's pretty surreal to walk between two major pieces of Earth's crust that are drifting in different directions," Brooke ...

But sometime in the very distant future, there may be a new guest: a sixth ocean. As a result of movement from the East ...

Controversial Dutch researcher and seismologist Frank Hoogerbeets said on Monday that Greece is in volcanic and earthquake ...

“(New Hampshire and Maine) sit on the North American Tectonic Plate ... rather than at the edge of the plate where one plate meets another.” The epicenter of Monday’s earthquake was roughly ...

“(New Hampshire and Maine) sit on the North American Tectonic Plate ... rather than at the edge of the plate where one plate meets another.” The epicenter of Monday’s earthquake was roughly ...

A Tsunami Advisory was in effect for Puerto Rico and nearby islands after a powerful earthquake struck between Honduras and ...

The 2.0 earthquake Wednesday morning was in the same region of Maine as the magnitude 3.8 earthquake on Monday.

The exact location of the epicenter was one kilometer north-northeast ... East Coast's central location on the North American tectonic plate, says Virginia Energy. On the West Coast, places ...

Southwestern parts of China, Nepal and northern India are frequently hit by earthquakes caused by the collision of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates. Tuesday’s epicenter was around 80 km ...

Experts from UNH explain how rare the 3.8 magnitude earthquake was and the likelihood of significant aftershocks.