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 ...

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

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

It was one of the strongest tremors in recorded history, but Wednesday's megathrust earthquake brought less tsunami damage ...

One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded has struck Russia’s Far East, causing tsunami waves in Japan and Alaska and ...

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

The US Geological survey said the earthquake was shallow, with its epicentre at a depth of about 19km (12 miles) and 119 km ...

Flipping through a photo album, Wayne Hendrickson recalls the day when he witnessed the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in North America ...

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

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

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