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

While a 100 per cent advance warning for earthquake is not possible, the minister said there are 166 permanent seismological ...

A series of small earthquakes shook the San Francisco Bay Area on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey.

Scientists have detected several thousand earthquakes, most with small magnitudes, in just over two weeks near Greece’s ...

Authorities have declared a state of emergency on a second Greek island as a series of earthquakes continued to rattle the ...

The exception isIceland, which is known for its volcanoes and hot springs. The country sits on this earthquake belt and experiences both quakes and volcanic eruptions. We know which areas are ...

Countries around the world have experienced an uptick in natural disasters and home insurance costs, but each country has ...

Yet another asylum seeker has just launched a deranged attack out of nowhere on innocent members of the public.

Thousands of tremors, sometimes every few minutes, have shaken Santorini, Greece. More than 13,000 of its 15,500 inhabitants ...

A 4.2 magnitude earthquake struck Afghanistan at a depth of 125 km, according to the National Center for Seismology (NCS).

The National Institute of Geophysics confirmed on Monday evening that a 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck Ouezzane Province, in northern Morocco.

Under the new plan, for example, the prefectural governments of Toyama, Fukushima and Shimane will send officials to Shizuoka ...