About 55 earthquakes a day – 20,000 a year – are recorded by the National Earthquake Information Center. Most are tiny and barely noticed by people living where they happen. But some are strong enough ...

(Corrects paragraph 5 of Feb 27 story to make clear that a magnitude 7.0 quake releases 1,000 times more energy than a magnitude 5.0, not 900) Feb 27 (Reuters) - A massive magnitude-8.8 earthquake ...

Monday afternoon, a 5.8 earthquake centered 15 miles northeast of Yerington hit just after 3 p.m., rattling windows and nerves as far away as Sacramento and San Francisco. Aftershocks continued to be ...

Earthquake news: While no immediate reports of casualties or damage were received, authorities are closely monitoring the ...

Sept 12 (Reuters) - A powerful quake measuring 7.9 struck near Indonesia's Sumatra island on Wednesday triggering tsunami warnings in Indonesia, Malaysia, India and Sri Lanka, officials said.

Earthquakes account for some of the costliest natural disasters in history. They can literally reshape the planet. But how powerful can they get? That's a question humans have only recently been able ...