Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

The powerful earthquake that hit central Japan on New Year's Day killed at ... Hokuriku Electric's Shika plant, the closest to the epicenter, had already halted its two reactors before the quake ...

The Philadelphia Flyers snapped a five-game losing streak with a 3-2 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday night. The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude 7.6 earthquake occurred Saturday ...

The Aegean Sea is no stranger to earthquakes. It is laced with faults related to the slow collision between the African and ...

An earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale struck Hokkaido, Japan’s second largest island, on Sunday, the ...

Japan has turned to nuclear power more than a decade after the triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. Japan is ...

Sonoma’s Maki Aizawa, a co-curator of the remarkable Books Become Art exhibition at the Sonoma Valley Museum, talks with Anna ...

Japan faced a massive earthquake, a huge tsunami, and a nuclear meltdown. All things considered, they fared pretty well. Why?

The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude 7.6 earthquake occurred Saturday around 6:23 p.m. Eastern Time with an epicenter about 129 miles southwest of George Town, the capital of the Cayman ...