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

But the danger appeared to be waning in some places, with the US state of Hawaii and Japan downgrading their warnings.

An 8.8-magnitude earthquake, one of the largest in the past century, struck off the coast of Russia this week, prompting ...

A powerful quake off Russia's coast may have set off a chain reaction across the Ring of Fire, raising the risk of an ...

One of the world’s strongest earthquakes struck Russia’s Far East early Wednesday, causing a tsunami in the northern Pacific ...