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

Emergency teams in China’s southwestern Sichuan province are racing against time to locate 28 people after a landslide ...

Chinese rescuers are searching for at least 29 people after a landslide in southwestern Sichuan province buried 10 houses.

Thousands of reports poured into the USGS of people feeling the earthquake as far south as New Jersey and ... relate earthquakes to occurring on the West Coast, but the East Coast isn't immune.

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck the southern island of Mindanao, Philippines, GFZ said on Thursday, just hours after an earthquake of similar magnitude damaged buildings and a road in a town in ...

MANILA, Philippines — A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck off Southern Leyte town on Thursday morning, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) reported. The state ...

A moderately strong, 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck in the Philippines on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 7:39 a.m. Philippine time about 4 ...

An earthquake of magnitude 5.9 struck off the central Philippines on Jan 23, 2025. (Image: USGS) 23 Jan 2025 08:47AM (Updated: 23 Jan 2025 03:10PM) ...

A powerful 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck southern Taiwan, leaving 27 injured and causing structural damage. Rescuers saved six, including a baby, from a collapsed house in Tainan. The quake ...

estimated that the energy released by the earthquake was equivalent to two atomic bombs. The quake jolted the neighbouring cities of Tainan and Kaohsiung in the south, with tremors felt as far ...