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

Multiple earthquakes shook California's Bay Area Thursday. They were recorded near Hayward, around 20 miles southeast of ...

Iraq is sinking. Or, to be exact, the region surrounding the Zagros Mountains in the country’s north is. A team of ...

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

A 4.2 magnitude earthquake struck Afghanistan at a depth of 125 km, according to the National Center for Seismology (NCS). The earthquake occurred at 07:32 IST. Taking to X, NCS wrote, "EQ of M: 4.2, ...

In a nutshell Scientists have discovered that Earth’s inner core isn’t just changing its rotation speed – it’s actually ...

The energy from an earthquake travels in waves. The fastest wave is called a P wave, and it shakes the earth by squeezing material as it moves through, like the coils of a Slinky being squished ...

At the center of our planet is a very hot rotating ball of mostly iron and nickel (sorry Journey to the Center of the Earth ...

A series of small earthquakes shook the San Francisco Bay Area on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey.

Earthquakes’ sudden, rapid shaking can cause fires, tsunamis, landslides or avalanches. They can happen anywhere, but they’re ...

Earth’s inner core is changing shape, scientists have found.

A major, 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck in the Caribbean Sea on Saturday and triggered a tsunami advisory in Puerto Rico and ...