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

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?

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

An earthquake lasted 32 years, and scientists want to know how The slow quake—the longest ever recorded—ended in disaster in 1861. Experts are racing to find today’s equivalents.

Far beneath the waves, down in the depths of the Japan Trench—seven kilometers below sea level—lie hidden clues about some of ...

A map of the earthquakes triggered around the globe within a week of the April 2012 earthquake off the coast of Sumatra (white star). Courtesy of Fred Pollitz, USGS The largest earthquake of the ...

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 ...

A multi-disciplinary team has simulated the largest, longest multiphysics earthquake simulation to date.