24/7 Tempo has determined the 20 most powerful earthquakes ever recorded by reviewing data from The United States Geological Survey (USGS). Magnitudes are measured on the Moment Magnitude scale (Mw).

Today at about 11:30am local time, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula in the country's far east.

A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck the Alaska Peninsula on the afternoon of July 16, briefly triggering a tsunami warning for the state's southern coast as communities were ordered to move inland ...

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

A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck near the coast of the Kamchatka region in the far east of Russia on Sunday, earthquake monitoring agencies said. The earthquake struck off the east coast of ...

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One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded has struck Russia’s Far East, resulting in small tsunami waves in Japan and Alaska and calls ffor people around the Pacific to be ...

Yesterday, an astonishing 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Russia, near the Kamchatka Peninsula. That is HUGE! In fact, it is the strongest earthquake to happen on Earth ...