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

The vast majority of earthquakes strike inside the Ring of Fire, a string of volcanoes and tectonic activity that wraps ...

SANTIAGO, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- A 5.5 magnitude earthquake rocked northern Chile on Friday, with no reports of casualties and property damage, local authorities said. The National Seismological Center ...

So did residents in Peru and Brazil. However no injuries were reported outside Chile. A major earthquake just offshore rattled Chileans, killing at least five people and shaking the earth so ...

Alex de Steiguer was about to send an email from a house on Star Island, 7 miles off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire, when she heard what she thought was a big plane flying over. Outside, a flock ...

YORK, ME. (WWLP) – Another earthquake shook Maine on Sunday, the third in the same area in just the past week. The earthquake ...

CHILE is one of the great seismically active regions in the world and part of the circum-Pacific ring of instability. During the night of January 24, an earthquake which lasted according to human ...

The successive earthquakes that hit Santorini overnight, many of which exceeded 4 Richter, caused panic in Rodrigo and Leslie ...

The Valdivia earthquake, which struck Chile on May 22, 1960. Seismic monitoring wasn't as widespread back then, but scientists estimate this devastating quake had a magnitude of 9.5. The largest ...