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

At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...

Greece's government has just declared a state of emergency on the island of Santorini, as earthquakes shake the island ...

Scientists found that the inner core’s structure changes as it rotates. It deforms at its border, potentially accumulating ...

On February 8, 2025, a powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake hit the Northwestern Caribbean Sea, initiating a Tsunami alert 130 ...

Minutes after a magnitude 4.5 earthquake hit Iran on October 5, 2024, rumors swirled that it wasn’t natural—claims that ...

A magnitude 3.1 earthquake, with an epicenter 3 miles north-northwest of Oak Hill in the southern part of Jackson County, ...

The region hosts volcanoes as well as numerous weak zones in the crust – what earth scientists often call “faults”. Santorini itself is a mostly submerged caldera – a crater formed as a ...

The Aegean Sea is no stranger to earthquakes. It is laced with faults related to the slow collision between the African and ...