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 ...

An earthquake of 7.5 magnitude on Richter Scale jolted the Cayman Islands Region on Sunday, a statement by the National ...

This USGS map shows the point at which the tectonic plates come together off the Humboldt Coast ... Unlike the Humboldt quake ...

“(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 ...

This means, for example, that the amplitude of the seismic waves at a given distance from the epicenter is 10 times larger for ... imperceptibly slow-paced—movement of tectonic plates across the Earth ...

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

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 ...

A Tsunami Advisory was issued on Saturday evening following 7.6 magnitude earthquake, which occurred southwest of the Cayman ...