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

Alaska’s Emergency Operations Center has cancelled an annual test of the system responsible for alerting Alaskans about ...

Alaska had two magnitude 6.3 earthquakes in 2024, and they were the state’s largest quakes for the year, according to the ...

Scientists are keeping a close eye on three US volcanoes after their threat levels rose Thursday, suggesting eruptions may be ...

Alaska’s Emergency Operations Center has cancelled an annual test of the system responsible for alerting Alaskans about ...

Rich Mattson: A popular bumper sticker in 1986 was “I survived the tsunami of 1986,” because there was a 7.7 magnitude earthquake in the Aleutian Islands on May 7, and it was feared that there ...

WASHINGTON, 18th July, 2017 (WAM) -- A powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.8 off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula triggered a tsunami warning but the threat has now passed, Reuters has quoted the US ...

Authorities have declared a state of emergency on a second Greek island as a series of earthquakes continued to rattle the ...

Schools on four Greek islands will remain closed through next week as earthquakes continue to rattle the region.

Scientists have detected several thousand earthquakes, the vast majority of them with small magnitudes, in just over two ...