The quake also damaged nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, leading to one of the biggest nuclear disasters in history. This earthquake was the largest ever recorded in Japan ...

A 9.5 earthquake that struck about 3,800 years in northern Chile was the greatest in human history, according to a new study.

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

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

What are the biggest earthquakes in history? - Massive Myanmar earthquake causes widespread destruction, with hundreds feared dead ...

The earthquake remains the most powerful earthquake to strike North America, and the second-largest earthquake ever measured.

Earthquakes comprise some of the deadliest natural disasters in history.

Today we take a look at 11 biggest earthquakes around the world. These are some of the worst killers in human history.

Archaeologists have found evidence of the largest known earthquake in human history — a terrifying magnitude-9.5 megaquake that caused a 5,000-mile-long (8,000 kilometers) tsunami and prompted human ...

A powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula early Wednesday, immediately triggering tsunami warnings for Japan and the U.S. The quake, one of the six largest ever ...

And the 1952 earthquake, a 7.3-magnitude quake that hit Kern County, was the third largest earthquake in recorded California history.

A magnitude 8.2 earthquake caused a tsunami that killed more than 5,200 people on Dec. 30, 1703, according to NOAA data. The event occurred off the southwest Boso Peninsula, which is just south of ...