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

The 5.0 magnitude earthquake is tied for the sixth strongest in state history. Scientists have warned for years that ...

Claudio Berti, director of the Idaho Geological Survey, was driving from Moscow to Boise for an Idaho Emergency Management Association conference on Monday morning when the largest earthquake the ...

Tourists and locals alike are told to be cautious as the hotspot Greek island of Santorini has suffered yet another huge ...

One of the largest earthquakes ever reported in New England happened off the coast of Massachusetts near Cape Ann in 1755. Historians and seismologists estimate the earthquake's magnitude at ...

is one of the deepest and largest earthquakes ever recorded. The earthquake took place within the Izu-Bonin subduction zone 680 kilometers below the Earth's surface. The mechanisms behind deep ...

is one of the deepest and largest earthquakes ever recorded. The earthquake took place within the Izu-Bonin subduction zone 680 kilometers below the Earth's surface. The mechanisms behind deep ...

After the largest Texas earthquake in three decades struck near the border of Reeves and Culberson counties in November that year, commission staff also expanded the area where water injections ...