If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Some cities sit atop fault lines, where the earth shifts unpredictably, turning daily ...

Multiple tremors were recorded by the USGS over the past week, including one which struck as the Oscars ceremony was underway.

From the devastating Sumatran quake and tsunami of 2004 to a monstrous temblor in Siberia that, thankfully, killed no one, here are the largest earthquakes ever recorded, according to the U.S ...

Additional information collected about the earthquake may also prompt U.S.G.S. scientists to update the shake-severity map. An aftershock ... one of a handful of major faults that cut through ...

California has been rocked by at least nine earthquakes since Thursday, raising fears that the "Big One" could be near.