The 10 largest earthquakes in the world are responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths.

A handful of regions around the world regularly unleash terrifyingly large earthquakes. Here are the largest earthquakes on record. And since scientists figured out how to measure earthquake ...

On that day, two earthquakes — one a 3.5 magnitude and the other 3.6 — were included in a flurry of tremors and aftershocks.

One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Russia’s Far East early on July 30, 2025, resulting in small tsunami waves in Japan and Alaska. Here's a glance at some of the biggest ...

As the world's tectonic plates crash, grind and dive into one another, they release their pent-up energy in giant earthquakes that can rock the ground, trigger volcanic eruptions, move mountains and ...

Since Thursday, at least 131 earthquakes have been recorded — as small as magnitude 0.2 and as big as magnitude 4 — in the ...

Last Saturday at 9:49am local time, a magnitude 5.6 earthquake occurred about 50km west of Gympie in Queensland. The ...

The quake is the sixth-strongest on record, according to the United States Geological Survey. It’s also the largest since 2011, when a magnitude 9.1 quake shook Japan.

The magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on July 29, 2025, is now among the top 10 strongest ever recorded globally.

See where the recent earthquake in Kamchatka Krai, Russia, ranks among past events.