School principal Yoshiro Tobo is one of the few people left on his remote Japanese island, where the earth is constantly ...

About 55 earthquakes a day – 20,000 a year – are recorded by the National Earthquake Information Center. A quick guide to how they are measured. Earthquakes happen all the time, ...

About 55 earthquakes a day – 20,000 a year – are recorded by the National Earthquake Information Center. A quick guide to how they are measured.

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

Near-shore tsunamis, those triggered by earthquakes just off the coast, could pose a particularly dire risk for California’s heavily populated coastal communities.

The intensity goes all the way up to XII, which is total damage. Watch the video above to learn more from AccuWeather about how earthquakes are measured and see the U.S. Geological Survey site for ...

A series of earthquakes has rattled the Pacific Northwest in recent weeks, raising concerns. A local expert says it's nothing to worry about.

Early Friday, a major 7.7 magnitude earthquake that originated near Mandalay, Myanmar, shook the Earth as far as Bangkok, about 800 miles away. Skip to content All Sections ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.9, rather than a 7.0, would have prompted only an advisory, and the wireless emergency alert system would not have been deployed.

Residents of a rural Guatemalan community have lynched five men accused of robbing homes damaged by recent earthquakes.

Not all earthquakes create tsunamis. An earthquake must be big enough and close enough to the ocean floor to cause the vertical movement of the ocean floor that typically sets a tsunami in motion.