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

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake shook buildings in Taiwan on Thursday morning, as a series of temblors hit the island, causing ...

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake shook buildings in Taiwan on Thursday morning, as a series of temblors hit the island, causing little damage but possibly portending more seismic activity in the near future ...

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake shook buildings in Taiwan on Thursday morning, as a series of temblors hit the island, causing ...

Last April, a magnitude 7.4 quake hit the island’s mountainous eastern coastal county of Hualien, killing at least 13 people, injuring more than 1,000 others, collapsing a hotel and forcing the ...

Alex de Steiguer was about to send an email from a house on Star Island, 7 miles off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire, when she heard what she thought was a big plane flying over. Outside, a flock ...

Just before 10:30 this morning, an initial report of an earthquake, you know, *** little over 10 miles off the coast of Portsmouth out over the Atlantic Ocean. This was initially *** 4.1 ...

The Cape Ann earthquake of 1755, one of the region's largest recorded quakes, caused widespread destruction and alarm at a time when the area was still sparsely developed . The largest recorded ...

Claudio Berti, director of the Idaho Geological Survey, was driving from Moscow to Boise for an Idaho Emergency Management Association conference on Monday morning when the largest earthquake the ...

Several people in the Monadnock Region reported feeling a 3.9 magnitude earthquake the U.S. Geological Survey says struck off ...