From 1811 to 1812, quakes in the central U.S. rang church bells in Boston and caused the Mississippi to flow backward.

For obvious reasons, it would be useful to predict when an earthquake is going to occur. It has long been suspected that large quakes in the Himalayas follow a fairly predictable cycle, but nature, as ...

The earthquake hit at a depth of 73.3km, about 9km from the province's coastal town of San Julian.