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

In Southern California, the infamous San Andreas Fault has a major earthquake every 150-200 years. It has been 168 years since the last one in 1857. Today over 10 million people live in Los ...

because you have no detailed information on what an earthquake is doing until it explodes." Stephanie Pappas is a contributing writer for Live Science, covering topics ranging from geoscience to ...

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"Your mind goes to anything but an earthquake when you live in New England." The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency said it received reports of shaking felt in the state, but there were no ...

according to the Great California Shakeout. Experts are 'fairly confident that there could be a pretty large earthquake at some point in the next 30 years,' Angie Lux, project scientist for ...

A recent earthquake in the Victor Valley got the attention of some residents in Lucerne Valley and the surrounding area. The 2.6 magnitude earthquake at a depth of just over 4 miles was reported ...

BOSTON – People around New England felt a 3.8 magnitude earthquake that was centered off the coast of Maine in York Harbor on Monday. So how rare is such an occurrence in New England?

Puerto Vallarta, Mexico - A magnitude 5 earthquake struck 100 kilometers southwest of Puerto Vallarta... Mexico is a country that has a long history of earthquakes, with its location along the Pacific ...

An earthquake of magnitude 3.5 on the Richter Scale jolted the Uttarkashi area of Uttarakhand on Friday morning, according to the National Center for Seismology (NCS).