When people discuss the Big One in this region, they’re talking about an earthquake on the plate boundary between the Juan de Fuca and North American tectonic plates, said Paul Bodin, a ...

Russia’s earthquake was estimated at magnitude 8.8, among the strongest since scientists began monitoring ...

What would a 9.0 earthquake mean for the area? Big One-related research efforts made national headlines this summer, including in The Washington Post. NBC News recently reported that between the ...

A powerful earthquake that struck off the coast of Russia generated tsunami warnings and advisories for a broad section of the Pacific, including Alaska, Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast.

The earthquake appeared to be the strongest anywhere in the world since the March 2011 earthquake off northeast Japan that was 9.0 magnitude.

A tsunami advisory was also issued for parts of Alaska and the entire West Coast after a powerful earthquake off Russia's ...

To see how a magnitude-9.0 earthquake would rattle the Pacific Northwest, researchers ran 50 virtual simulations on a supercomputer.

The earthquake appeared to be the strongest since the 9.0 magnitude earthquake off Japan in March 2011 that caused a massive tsunami and nuclear disaster.

The recent Kamchatka quake ties for sixth on the all-time list. Here are the top five earthquakes by magnitude.

The earthquake appeared to be the strongest anywhere in the world since the March 2011 earthquake off northeast Japan that was 9.0 magnitude.

A tsunami has hit coastal areas of Russia’s Kuril Islands and Japan’s large northern island of Hokkaido after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake early Wednesday.