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 ...

“The African continent is undergoing a slow, monumental split due to tectonic plate movements in the Afar Triangle. A new ...

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

Despite the cancellation of tsunami alerts, the scientific community insists that seismic activity in the Caribbean will ...

“(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 issued on Saturday evening following 7.6 magnitude earthquake, which occurred southwest of the Cayman ...

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

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 ...