Earthquakes around the world have rattled the Nevada home of the world’s rarest fish deep in a hole in Nye County.

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

The Atlantic coastline is vulnerable to tsunamis triggered by earthquakes and landslides across the ocean basin ...

Tsunami alerts were issued for Alaska and Hawaii on Tuesday after a major, 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of ...

While most earthquakes occur at plate boundaries, they can also happen along faults within a single tectonic plate. Read more ...

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

Each year, National Earthquake Information Center locates approximately 20,000 earthquakes around the world. That is about 55 earthquakes per day. By some estimates, there may be even more.

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In comparison with other large earthquakes around the world, the 2011 Japan quake and tsunami -- in which more than 22,000 people were killed or went missing -- registered a magnitude of 9.1.

If you've ever wondered where — and why — earthquakes happen the most, look no further than a new map, which plots more than a century's worth of nearly every recorded earthquake strong enough ...

When a new earthquake is recorded by any monitoring station around the world, it shows up on this new real time map, created by Mapbox using USGS earthquake data feed. The dots on the map ...