Scientists have found an explanation for the deadliest earthquake in European history, which destroyed Lisbon in 1755. Earth ...

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 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?

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

Scientists say a warning system could have given people on the Alaska Peninsula 10 seconds or more to brace themselves for July's M7.3 earthquake.

The Kamchatka Peninsula earthquake may not have brought the same devastation as previous shocks, but a far more deadly seismic event is looming for the US West Coast.

A magnitude 8.2 earthquake caused a tsunami that killed more than 5,200 people on Dec. 30, 1703, according to NOAA data. The event occurred off the southwest Boso Peninsula, which is just south of ...

It was one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded, a magnitude 8.8 monster off the eastern coast of Russia. Despite its remote location, the size of the quake immediately brought potential ...

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?

Seismic Record: From the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami to the 2025 Kamchatka quake, explore the deadliest earthquakes of the 21st century.

University of Tokyo professor and risk communication expert Naoya Sekiya said the government has for years modeled scenarios ...

The deadliest recorded tsunami in history claimed hundreds of thousands of lives after a magnitude 9.1 earthquake rocked the Indian Ocean in 2004. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...