A popular spot in America for tourists is also a hotspot for earthquakes with a number of projects underway to future-proof ...

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 ...

Something like 90 percent of the world’s earthquakes also occur along the Ring of Fire, including the 1960 Valdivia Earthquake in Chile – the strongest ever recorded, reaching a magnitude of 9 ...

A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia's North Maluku on Wednesday, the geophysics agency said. The ...

In Brazil, the warning of an earthquake woke many people from their sleep. However, the earth did not shake - it was a false ...

A 4.2 magnitude earthquake struck about 143 miles southwest of Tofino, B.C., at around 5:53 a.m. A second 3.0 magnitude earthquake struck the same general area, directly west of Washington's Olympic ...

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake shook buildings in Taiwan on Thursday morning, as a series of temblors hit the island, causing little damage but possibly portending more seismic activity in the near future ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.2 earthquake hit off the coast of Indonesia's North Maluku, the geophysics agency said on Wednesday. The agency on social media platform X said the quake, which was ...

Taiwan is frequently hit by earthquakes because it’s on the edges of two tectonic plates near the Pacific Ring of Fire. Image / USGS A magnitude-6 earthquake hit Taiwan on Tuesday, the US ...

The strongest earthquake in 25 years was followed by hundreds of aftershocks. Taiwan lies along the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” the line of seismic faults encircling the Pacific Ocean where most ...

A tectonic earthquake is produced by sudden movement ... The Philippines sits on the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” where continental plates collide causing frequent seismic and volcanic activity.