Earthquakes have shaped the planet’s geography and influenced human history in profound ways. Among these natural events, one stands supreme in terms of magnitude and impact. The Great Chilean ...

An earthquake of magnitude 7.3 on the Richter Scale rattled Alaska in the early hours of Thursday, a statement by the ...

A new study corrects the recorded depth of an earthquake in Japan, revealing that it was not the deepest in history.

This week FM Global, one of the largest commercial property insurers based in the U.S., released the world’s most comprehensive global earthquake risk map to date.

Scientists detected a slow-motion earthquake off Japan, offering rare insight into hidden faults and tsunami risks beneath the seafloor.

There are millions of low-magnitude earthquakes that occur around the world every year, including the 2.2 magnitude seismic event that shook parts of the Lowcou ...

Millions of people dropped to the ground and crouched under their desks Thursday as part of the world's largest earthquake drill. The "Great ShakeOut," an annual earthquake drill that started in ...

Japan’s new earthquake-detection network lengthens warning times, and researchers in Wales have harnessed nuclear blast ...

Analysis of Global Positioning System (GPS) time-series data from nearly 100 large earthquakes worldwide has provided evidence for the existence of a precursory phase of fault slip occurring two ...