A long-feared monster earthquake off the coast of California, Oregon and Washington could cause some areas to sink by more ...

When an earthquake rips along the Cascadia Subduction Zone fault, much of the U.S. West Coast could shake violently for five ...

Earthquakes are part of nature but they do not have to be disasters. DW looks at some countries that are showing how ...

Earthquakes are part of nature but they do not have to be disasters. DW looks at some countries that are showing how ...

On March 27, 1964, the United States faced its most powerful earthquake since records began. Known as the Good Friday earthquake, it affected almost all of Alaska and caused the earth to shake for ...

With a magnitude of 9.5, this is the strongest earthquake ever recorded. It caused massive destruction and triggered a powerful tsunami. A 9.1–9.3 magnitude earthquake struck on December 26, 2004. It ...

An earthquake of magnitude 5.7 struck northern Chile on Thursday. According to the German Research Center for Geosciences, ...

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In 1638, an earthquake in what is now New Hampshire and Plymouth, Massachusetts, left colonists stumbling from the strong shaking and water sloshing out of the pots used by Native Americans to ...

Holidaymakers in Spain were left terrified when an earthquake rocked a popular tourist destination. The Costa Blanca holiday resort of Torrevieja, frequented by many during the Easter break ...

A 5.2-magnitude earthquake shook Southern California on Monday morning, sending boulders tumbling onto rural roadways outside San Diego, items rattling off shelves and elephants at the San Diego ...

A flurry of seismic activity that caused 160 quakes in just two hours at the Laguna del Maule volcanic field in central Chile has put authorities on alert. 160 quakes occurred in the area during a ...