Earthquakes: Nature's most unpredictable and one of her most devastating natural disasters. When high intensity earthquakes strike they can cause thousands of deaths and billions of dollars in damaged ...

When we think of earthquakes, we imagine sudden, violent shaking. But deep beneath the Earth's surface, some faults move in near silence. These slow, shuffling slips and their accompanying hum -- ...

For decades, researchers thought that an October 1843 earthquake on the small Greek island of Chalke caused a powerful ...

When an underwater earthquake rattles deep below Antarctica’s icy waters, the motion may set off a chain reaction that causes tiny organisms called phytoplankton to rapidly multiply at the ocean ...

Two recent earthquakes have devastated the home of a tiny fish, causing its population numbers to decline. However, a recent count of the pupfish population in a national park shows its numbers ...

created the huge tsunami also changed the Earth’s rotation. Dr. Benjamin Fong Chao, of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. and Dr. Richard Gross of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, ...

EUGENE, Ore. (NBC) -- When an earthquake rips along the Cascadia Subduction Zone fault, much of the U.S. West Coast could shake violently for five minutes, and tsunami waves as tall as 100 feet could ...

A 3.3 magnitude earthquake was detected Thursday morning near Caddo Lake, within Harrison County, in East Texas. The minor quake was detected around 6:15 a.m. on the western end of Caddo Lake.

An earthquake near Cleveland Sunday night was felt by some Pennsylvanians as well as western New York residents, according to multiple reports. The quake happened at 10:43 p.m. and was centered in ...