Last year's 9.0-magnitude Tohoku-Oki, Japan, earthquake was the fourth largest since 1900. However, because of thousands of seismometers in the region and Japan's willingness to share their ...

Two million people are told to evacuate in Japan after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake, one of the strongest ever, hits Russia's ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone, stretching from northern California to British Columbia, is one of the most dangerous seismic hotspots in North America, capable of producing a massive 9.0 magnitude ...

One of the most powerful earthquakes in decades has struck Russia's far east, causing 5m tsunami waves and prompting ...

A magnitude 9.0 earthquake could certainly qualify as the much-feared “big one” in Washington state. New simulation videos from the Washington State Department of Natural Resources show how ...

Drone footage shows tsunami waves flooding the Russian coastal town of Severo-Kurilsk after a powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the country's far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula on ...

A new study on the Cascadia fault line breaks down the flooding potential of a 9.0 earthquake, calculating the risk of where and how much land could sink in the Pacific Northwest and Northern ...

In 1952, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake occurred in the same subduction zone, only about 30 kilometres away from today’s magnitude 8.8 earthquake.

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