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

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

all of which surround the vast Pacific plate. The result is… well, it’s what gives the Ring of Fire its name: volcanoes, and earthquakes – and a lot of them. “Much of the volcanic activity ...

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake shook buildings in Taiwan on Thursday morning, as a series of temblors hit the island, causing ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 jolted Southwest of Sumatra, Indonesia at 04:31 GMT on Friday, the GFZ German Research ...

The agency on social media platform X said the quake, which was 81 km (50 miles) deep, had no tsunami potential.

According to Japanese mythology, the thrashing of a giant subterranean catfish causes the earthquakes that wreak havoc on the ...

However, no tsunami alert was issued as the tremors were not expected to trigger giant waves. Indonesia has frequently been ...

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 vast majority of earthquakes strike inside the Ring of Fire, a string of volcanoes and tectonic activity that wraps ...

Scientists say that the mantle is split up into two domains- the African and the Pacific that emerged when the supercontinent Pangaea broke apart. An international team of scientists, led by Adam ...