Earthquake

Japan’s bullet trains are quite possibly the world’s most punctual form of transportation, and the safest way to hit…

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck Puerto Rico on Saturday morning, one of three powerful shocks to wrack the island…

Puerto Rico just can’t seem to catch a break. The people of the island have been dealing with a series of small…

Friday’s magnitude 7.1 earthquake near Ridgecrest, California, was nothing to sneeze at. The shake, which triggered…

A magnitude 7.0 earthquake shook Anchorage and the surrounding area on Friday morning. The shaking also triggered a…

The tsunami-driven floodwater has receded from Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, but the slow-motion disaster continues.…

An earthquake with a reported 7.9 magnitude hit New Zealand’s South Island around 12.02am local time. Devastating…

Just a few months after central Italy was battered by a magnitude 6.2 earthquake, the region has been struck again,…

Yesterday, a massive 6.1 magnitude earthquake rocked central Italy. It was followed by nearly 200 aftershocks,…

Central California is currently in the middle of an earthquake swarm, with up to 18 (and counting) tiny quakes…

Californians may scoff at the idea of a mid-sized earthquake, but when our nation’s capitol started shaking on…

The US Geological Survey has noted seismic activity—a magnitude 5.1 earthquake—near a known North Korean nuclear…

The year 2015 will go down as many things, but normal isn’t one of them. We saw record-smashing temperatures,…

It was a day for quake, rattle, and roll on the west coast when small earthquakes hit both Los Angeles and the…

In August, Japan reopened its first nuclear reactors after an almost two-year hiatus that followed the 2011…

How big is this landslide in China’s Tonzang valley? Big. So big that it created many (many!) new lakes. So big…

Nepal is home to the best climbing, trekking and mountaineering on earth. But, earlier this year, it also had a…

People who live in seismically active areas are so good about posting earthquake tweets that you may even be warned…

The Illapel earthquake that hit Chile in September shifted the ground by up to 1.4 meters. That’s awfully far to…

When Chile was hit by a magnitude 8.3 earthquake this week, the very ground shifted. By comparing images before and…