created the huge tsunami also changed the Earth’s rotation. Dr. Benjamin Fong Chao, of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. and Dr. Richard Gross of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, ...

Researchers are combining data on earthquake shaking intensity, crowdsourced traffic data from the Waze navigation app and police crash reports to find out if car crashes are more likely during ...

Earthquakes: Nature's most unpredictable and one of her most devastating natural disasters. When high intensity earthquakes strike they can cause thousands of deaths and billions of dollars in damaged ...

The magnitude-8.8 earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula sent a wave of water racing at the speed of a jetliner toward Hawaii, California and Washington state, spurring warnings and alarm ...

As early American pioneers forged a long, arduous path across the country during the Westward Expansion, an earthquake hit what is now the State of Oklahoma on October 22, 1822. “The trembling and ...

Reports show an earthquake was felt well into Georgia Saturday morning. U.S. Geological Survey An earthquake in Tennessee Saturday morning caused shakes that were felt as far south as Middle Georgia, ...

You probably didn't feel the earthquake that shook Alaska earlier this month or the one that brought tsunamis to the coasts of Russia and Japan on Wednesday — but Lake Pontchartrain did. Two major ...

When an underwater earthquake rattles deep below Antarctica’s icy waters, the motion may set off a chain reaction that causes tiny organisms called phytoplankton to rapidly multiply at the ocean ...