One of the most infamous warning signs of a deadly tsunami is when the tide pulls away from the shoreline. Beachgoers may be ...

A powerful earthquake struck Wednesday off Russia’s Far East coast, flooding a fishing port with waves from a tsunami, ...

Kamchatsky, a coastal city in Russia's Far East, at 11:24 pm Indian time on July 29. The earthquake area falls in the Kuril-Kamchatka subduction zone where the Pacific Plate dives beneath the North ...

A handful of regions around the world regularly unleash terrifyingly large earthquakes. Here are the 21 largest earthquakes ...

The earthquake in Kamchatka is the largest worldwide since 2011. Its location has been very seismically active in recent ...

Many of the world’s biggest earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis occur along a chain of seismologically active ...

The July 30 earthquake occurred due to tensions along the subduction faultline between the Pacific and the Okhotsk tectonic plates. The area is part of the Ring of Fire, a zone of earthquakes and ...

A lurch in the Earth’s tectonic plates can wreak havoc at any time. How do scientists measure quakes, and are we doing enough ...

The United States Geological Survey issues tsunami warnings for the Pacific Ocean after major earthquake off Russia.

A hot blob currently beneath the Appalachians may have peeled off from Greenland around 80 million years ago and moved to ...

Researchers recently discovered a huge chain of extinct volcanoes buried deep below South China that formed when two tectonic ...