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

A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck Russia’s Altai Republic in southern Siberia on Saturday morning, according to Russian ...

Did you feel it? So far, 736 people reported feeling the 3.7 magnitude earthquake that struck near Port Angeles, Washington, ...

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

A strong, 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck in Ethiopia on Friday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The ...