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

The Greek island's mayor has warned that seismic activity could continue for weeks, after earthquakes up to a magnitude of ...

They live on two sets of fault lines. The racial ones lingering from ... and class are the shifting tectonic plates crashing together at the play's epicentre. Their attempt to integrate is ...

And those findings do apply to real-world earthquakes ... Earthquakes form when two tectonic plates moving against one another get stuck, allowing the fault to build up stress.

A freeze warning is in place for several California counties, according to the National Weather Service (NWS). While four ...

Earth's five oceans were formed by the constant movement of tectonic plates beneath us, and the same process is already forming a sixth ocean in East Africa.

Perhaps most significantly in shifting the Electoral College map, Trump has tipped Ohio and ... “I don’t see a world in which Democrats control the Senate without winning a handful of these ...

It was felt as far north as Bangor, as far south as New York City and as far west as Albany, New York, according to a community internet intensity map on the USGS website. In York and other nearby ...

Understanding plate tectonics is key to grasping how the Earth’s geology ... that Istanbul frequently experiences major earthquakes—it’s sitting on a geological fault line with a lot of drama. Other ...