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

A record-breaking deep earthquake registered in May 2015 offshore of Japan likely was not a tectonic event but triggered by a ...

The latest quake was the third to hit the area which sits near a number of fault lines running through California including ...

This is the fourth eartquake to hit California with others felt across the region including shaking in San Bernardino, ...

New research uncovers a surprising clue in earthquake forecasting: tiny curved scratches on fault planes. These marks reveal ...

Learn more. I lived in California for a while where I taught kids about earthquakes at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps. Fault lines and tectonic plates were familiar terms to people out there ...

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

Experts say that while it has been quiet after Monday's quake, the risk of one or more aftershocks is not out of the question.

As more spacecraft are launched, the risk increases that uncontrolled space debris - those without active guidance - will ...

A freeze warning is in place for several California counties, according to the National Weather Service (NWS). While four ...

A 3.8 magnitude earthquake shook parts of New England on Monday morning, according to the United States Geological Survey. The earthquake occurred around 10:30 a.m. about 8 miles of the coast of York ...