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 ...

Over the last few days, the Coachella Valley has experienced more than 20 earthquakes, causing concern among some residents.

For decades, researchers thought that an October 1843 earthquake on the small Greek island of Chalke caused a powerful ...

Earthquake myths have circulated in the state for decades. We looked into them.

Two earthquakes struck off the Oregon coast on Tuesday, rattling communities along the Pacific Northwest shoreline. The first temblor registered a magnitude of 5.4 and occurred about 100 miles west of ...

At least 10 earthquakes have been confirmed in the same part of South Carolina in the past week, including some of the most powerful seismic activity recorded in the Palmetto State in years. That area ...

A new study uncovered hidden activity on California's fault lines.

A burst of low magnitude earthquakes in Northern California is just the latest in a series of earthquake clusters raising questions about whether seismic activity is increasing in the region. On ...

Once considered geologically impossible, earthquakes in stable regions like Utah and Groningen can actually occur due to long-inactive faults that slowly “heal” and strengthen over millions of years.

The recent flurry of earthquakes in South Carolina is continuing to rumble under ground in the same area of the Palmetto State. Three more earthquakes, on Sunday night and Monday, in Greenwood County ...

Examples abound of animals appearing to predict natural disasters, with anecdotes dating back as far as Ancient Greece, when the historian Thucydides wrote of rats, weasels, snakes and dogs deserting ...