An area in the Pacific Northwest lies on a 'subduction' zone where a tectonic plate slides underneath the North American plate. Subduction zones produce the world's largest earthquakes.

It is 1,100 miles (1,800 km) north-east of New Zealand and situated on the Pacific Ring of Fire, a tectonic region of earthquakes and volcanoes. The low-lying island nation was devastated by a ...

Israel carried out an airstrike on Beirut's southern suburbs Friday in a first such attack since the Nov. 27 cease-fire ...

Rescuers are racing to reach survivors in Bangkok with 47 missing, as the death toll of Myanmar’s devastating earthquake rises ...

Earthquakes are relatively common in Myanmar, where six strong quakes of 7.0 magnitude or more struck between 1930 and 1956 near the Sagaing Fault, which runs north to south through the centre of ...

Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American continent is dripping away in blobs of rock—and that the ...

Two separate earthquakes were reported near the Bay Area of California on Tuesday, according to the United States Geological Survey.

The U.S. Geologic Survey (USGS) insists that earthquake forecasting is not possible. Thus, the agency only calculates the ...

The US experiences violent earthquakes, but the damage and death toll is much lower than in many countries because of the ...

This earthquake was the result of a strike-slip fault movement along the Sagaing Fault line, which runs north to south through Myanmar. A strike-slip fault movement is caused by two different ...