A magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck near Takotna Wednesday evening, the largest to hit the area since December 1989.

Idaho has not experienced an earthquake of Monday’s size since February 2024, when a magnitude-4.9 earthquake hit near Smiths ...

The magnitude 7.9 Bonin Islands earthquake sequence in May 2015, which ruptured deep within the earth near the base of the ...

is one of the deepest and largest earthquakes ever recorded. The earthquake took place within the Izu-Bonin subduction zone 680 kilometers below the Earth's surface. The mechanisms behind deep ...

Tibet's earthquake of magnitude 6.8 that killed 126 and damaged four water reservoirs this week highlights the risks from a hydropower building spree by Asian giants China and India in one of the ...

MOUNT Everest has long been considered the tallest mountain on Earth, but new research reveals it might not even come close.

The Cape Ann earthquake of 1755, one of the region's largest recorded quakes ... Earthquakes occur when energy stored in the Earth's crust is suddenly released, typically due to the movement ...

Iceland's second-largest volcano may be ... David Pyle, a professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford, told Newsweek: "The earthquakes are clearly associated at depth with the ring ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Taiwan is one of the most seismically active places in the world with 10 times ... a massive magnitude 7.2 earthquake. It was Taiwan’s biggest earthquake in 25 years.