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 ...

The Greek island of Santorini was struck by the latest in a string of earthquakes Tuesday, this time a 4.8 temblor. The ...

Greece has declared a state of emergency on Santorini because of the hundreds of undersea earthquakes that have shaken the ...

The timing and location of such megathrust earthquakes depend on factors such as the shape, roughness, composition, and fluid content of the fault. Aside from the danger they pose, such ...

The nation is located in a busy earthquake zone and faces high levels of deforestation – factors that are linked to flooding and landslides, though it wasn't immediately clear if the areas hit are ...

But "the tidal force is a small factor affecting earthquakes," Lingsen Meng, associate professor of geophysics at UCLA, told BI. "Usually it's insignificant, and you really need to see through a ...