Earthquakes may feel like a rare occurrence, especially in Maine, but they happen around the world every day. Last week, that reality was on full display when two powerful earthquakes struck Venezuela ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When a magnitude 8.8 earthquake rocked Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on Tuesday, officials warned that damaging tsunami waves could ...

Tectonic plates are, like most of us, under a lot of stress and are always in motion. But they move slowly, and the exact moment when the stress between them will be released is uncertain. While ...

Over the past 120 years, a single tectonic event is responsible for over 20 per cent of the energy released from all the earthquakes that have occurred. May 23rd marked the 60th anniversary of the ...

Why are these earthquakes happening? The experts at GFZ said: Between Santorini, the underwater volcano Kolumbo and Amorgos, many earthquakes between 4 and 10 kilometers [2.5 and 6.2 miles] deep have ...

The Great Pyramid of Giza has stood for centuries despite harsh weather and powerful earthquakes, and a recent study may have ...

Japan is well known for its large earthquakes, but not all regions show the same patterns of earthquake activity. One way to understand which places tend to experience large or small earthquakes is ...

Two major earthquakes occurred in Venezeula on June 24, the first a magnitude 7.2 and the second a magnitude 7.5 a minute later. It is estimated that thousands of people have died and several thousand ...

One of the worst earthquakes in European history ripped through Portugal in 1755, causing a tsunami, fires and shaking that killed tens of thousands of people and caused widespread destruction.

This time: Whidbey Island on the night of July 1. And while a magnitude 3.8 isn't necessarily a strong earthquake, and this only produced weak-to-light shaking, it's a relatively stronger magnitude ...

Geologists show how the earthquake's rupture direction may have affected who felt the strongest shaking on 5 April. The magnitude 4.8 Tewksbury earthquake surprised millions of people on the U.S. East ...