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

The powerful earthquake that hit central Japan on New Year's Day killed at ... Hokuriku Electric's Shika plant, the closest to the epicenter, had already halted its two reactors before the quake ...

The Philadelphia Flyers snapped a five-game losing streak with a 3-2 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday night. The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude 7.6 earthquake occurred Saturday ...

An earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale struck Hokkaido, Japan’s second largest island, on Sunday, the ...

The Aegean Sea is no stranger to earthquakes. It is laced with faults related to the slow collision between the African and ...

The earthquake occurred at 5:46 in the ... According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, the epicenter was at a depth of 36 kilometers under the Hyuganada Sea.

A red-tailed hawk that was banded over 20 years ago in Pennsylvania was found 1,000 miles away in Canada.

Japan is turning to nuclear power more than a decade after the triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. Japan is ...

By Emily Burnham, Bangor Daily News Staff Though Maine is quiet seismologically compared with hotspots like California, ...

The US Geological Survey and the German Research Centre for Geosciences reported that its epicenter was 142km east of the capital ... The current episode of earthquake activity is being caused by ...

A magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck Fukushima Prefecture's Aizu region early Thursday and the Japan Meteorological Agency has warned of potential aftershocks of similar magnitude over the coming week, ...