On Tuesday, a powerful 8.8 magnitude earthquake rocked the area around Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, resulting in tsunami ...

The world has witnessed several catastrophic earthquakes, with the 1960 Valdivia, Chile quake topping the list at magnitude 9 ...

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

The Pacific Ring of Fire is a vast, horseshoe-shaped belt of intense geological activity that wraps around the Pacific Ocean.

The 9.2 Sumatra earthquake and subsequent tsunami killed more than 227,000 when it struck the day after Christmas Day, while the 9.1 Tohoku earthquake in Japan killed more than 18,000 people.

A powerful 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, triggering tsunami warnings across the northern ...

According to the theory, the Sumatra subduction zone was capable of no more than a magnitude 8 earthquake, Okal explains. "The cold shower we got was Sumatra," said Okal. "We have a 9.3 on our hands.

The Sumatra-Andaman subduction zone showing the rupture. "The unruptured region is loaded by stresses caused by deformation due to the 2004 earthquake and it has already produced two powerful ...