When a magnitude 8.8 earthquake rocked Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on Tuesday, officials warned that damaging tsunami waves could follow. Instead, the waves that reached Hawaii and the U.S. West ...

As the name suggests, an earthquake is an event that causes the earth to shake. In some cases, an earthquake can be so significant that it cracks open the ground, as well as human-made structures such ...

Two consecutive earthquakes measuring 7.7 and 6.4 hit Myanmar on Friday, with Bangkok's capital in Thailand experiencing strong shakes, collapsing a high-rise building and forcing the government to ...

Scientists have confirmed that a mysterious Utah earthquake first detected in 1979 really did occur nearly 90 kilometers ...

Scientists have finally explained why a Pacific Ocean fault has been generating repeating “clockwork” earthquakes for decades ...

Geologists show how the earthquake's rupture direction may have affected who felt the strongest shaking on 5 April. The magnitude 4.8 Tewksbury earthquake surprised millions of people on the U.S. East ...

ORCAS ISLAND, Wash. — Tens of thousands of people in western Washington and southwestern British Columbia felt a magnitude 4.5 earthquake on Monday that struck near the southeast side of Orcas Island.

Earthquakes can cause serious damage to buildings, but this new invention has the potential to mitigate some of that damage ...