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

An earthquake of 7.5 magnitude on Richter Scale jolted the Cayman Islands Region on Sunday, a statement by the National ...

The core of the Earth is undergoing surprise structural changes, researchers believe. A new study has seen scientists ...

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

Instead, they involve multiple earthquakes of a similar size that take place over days, weeks, or even months. These types of sequences are what seismologists call “earthquake swarms”. The 1956 ...

In light of the recent Los Angeles wildfires, catastrophe bond fund manager Icosa Investments has called for the re/insurance ...

After the terrible earthquake of 1956, its residents cast a black stone behind them, selling their properties—even for a tin ...

The Semipalatinsk Test Site, also called the Polygon, is lesser known but was used by the Soviet Union to test nuclear ...

The recent LA fires drove home how dangerous wildfires can be when they encroach on urban areas. So-called 'wildland-urban interface' fires are on the rise. However, building codes and standards have ...

A minor, 3.5-magnitude earthquake struck in Southern California on Saturday, according to the United States Geological Survey ...

An earthquake of magnitude 7.6 rattled the Caribbean Sea on Saturday evening (local time), US monitoring agencies said. The quake struck north of Honduras, about 130 miles (209 kilometres ...