only about 30 kilometres away from today’s magnitude 8.8 earthquake. Other examples of subduction plate boundary earthquakes include the 2011 magnitude 9.1 Tohoku-Oki Japan earthquake, and the 2004 ...

An earthquake of magnitude 8.8 - one of the world's strongest-struck Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula early on ...

While most earthquakes occur at plate boundaries, they can also happen along faults within a single tectonic plate. Read more ...

An 8.8 magnitude undersea earthquake near Russia's Kamchatka Peninsulasent tremors across the Pacific early Wednesday, ...

Viral Myanmar Earthquake Video Shows First Visual Evidence of Rare Seismic Phenomena Now-famous CCTV footage from March confirms faulting dynamics that researchers could previously only infer.

After earthquakes centered in New Jersey rattled parts the NYC area twice in less than two weeks, a seismologist says it's unlikely a sign of things to come.

Several factors help determine whether a given earthquake will generate a dangerous tsunami, but the process is not yet fully understood.

The first studies of the 28 March 2025 magnitude 7.8 Myanmar earthquake suggest that the southern portion of its rupture occurred at supershear velocity, reaching speeds of 5 to 6 kilometers per ...

A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck the Alaska Peninsula on the afternoon of July 16, briefly triggering a tsunami warning for the state's southern coast as communities were ordered to move inland ...