Earthquakes account for some of the costliest natural disasters in history. They can literally reshape the planet. But how powerful can they get? That's a question humans have only recently been able ...

A 4.8 magnitude earthquake rocked the Northeast Friday morning, in what New York Gov. Kathy Hochul called "one of the largest earthquakes on the East Coast in the last century." The earthquake was ...

When the biggest earthquake in more than a decade rattled Russia’s remote Kamchatka Peninsula in July, seismologists around the world knew within moments. For earthquakes big or small, sensors around ...

It’s been nearly two months since the largest earthquake of the past 14 years ripped 450 miles of the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench in the northwestern Pacific. It caused strong shaking in Kamchatka and ...