A handful of regions around the world regularly unleash terrifyingly large earthquakes. Here are the 21 largest earthquakes ...

An 8.8 magnitude earthquake – one of the most powerful in recorded history – struck off the coast of Russia Tuesday, ...

To see how a magnitude-9.0 earthquake would rattle the Pacific Northwest, researchers ran 50 virtual simulations on a ...

A magnitude 8.8 monster off the eastern coast of Russia threatened tens of millions of people with a tsunami risk. So why did ...

An 8.8 magnitude earthquake rocked the Russian coast on Tuesday, July 30, triggering a tsunami that sent waves as far as the ...

A powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula early Wednesday, immediately triggering tsunami ...

It is the most powerful quake since the 2011 earthquake off the coast of Japan that triggered a 50-foot tsunami and the ...

Tsunami warnings are being downgraded in most areas following one of this century’s most powerful earthquakes in Russia.

A magnitude 8.2 earthquake caused a tsunami that killed more than 5,200 people on Dec. 30, 1703, according to NOAA data. The ...

The U.S. Geological Survey said it and other agencies were monitoring the situation and would issue additional alerts "as ...

In Japan, swarms of earthquakes are fueling a dip in tourism and a viral panic over predictions of the next 'big one' ...