Mother Nature can be brutal and unforgiving - as shown by the largest earthquakes on record. Here’s how they compare in their ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO — It was one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded, a magnitude 8.8 monster off the eastern coast of Russia. Despite its remote location, the size of the quake immediately brought ...

Tokyo | One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Russia's Far East early Wednesday, resulting in small tsunami waves in Japan and Alaska and calls for people around the Pacific to be on ...

In 1979, the University of Minnesota’s Harold Mooney estimated that Minnesota’s average recurrence rate for a magnitude 4 ...

HONOLULU (AP) — One of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded sent a tsunami crashing into a Russian port and smaller waves barreling across the Pacific to the Americas and south to New Zealand.