An 8.8 magnitude earthquake – one of the most powerful in recorded history – struck off the coast of Russia Tuesday, ...

A magnitude 8.8 earthquake rocked Russia’s eastern peninsula and has led to evacuations in Hawaii and elsewhere.

From the devastating Sumatran quake and tsunami of 2004 to a monstrous temblor in Siberia that, thankfully, killed no one, here are the 20 largest earthquakes ever recorded, according to the U.S.

A magnitude 8.8 monster off the eastern coast of Russia threatened tens of millions of people with a tsunami risk. So why did Tuesday's mega-quake cause so little harm?

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

One of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded has sent a tsunami crashing into a Russian port and smaller waves ...

This week marks the anniversary of the largest earthquake ever recorded — a magnitude-9.5 earthquake that ripped along the coast of southern Chile on May 22, 1960.

A handful of regions around the world regularly unleash terrifyingly large earthquakes. Here are the largest earthquakes on record.

Using data from the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), the experts at FindTheData identified the 25 biggest earthquakes ever recorded.

Queensland has recorded a magnitude of 5.6 quake, the largest on-shore earthquake in 50 years.

The epicentre of the quake struck at Kilkivan, west of Gympie and 256 kilometres north of Brisbane, at 9.50am today.

An earthquake rattled homes and sent people scurrying outside when it struck the Llŷn Peninsula in Gwynedd. The quake’s epicentre was 1.5 miles away from the UK’s biggest ever recorded earthquake four ...