Earthquakes: Nature's most unpredictable and one of her most devastating natural disasters. When high intensity earthquakes strike they can cause thousands of deaths and billions of dollars in damaged ...

When we think of earthquakes, we imagine sudden, violent shaking. But deep beneath the Earth's surface, some faults move in near silence. These slow, shuffling slips and their accompanying hum -- ...

Two recent earthquakes have devastated the home of a tiny fish, causing its population numbers to decline. However, a recent count of the pupfish population in a national park shows its numbers ...

When an underwater earthquake rattles deep below Antarctica’s icy waters, the motion may set off a chain reaction that causes tiny organisms called phytoplankton to rapidly multiply at the ocean ...

EUGENE, Ore. (NBC) -- When an earthquake rips along the Cascadia Subduction Zone fault, much of the U.S. West Coast could shake violently for five minutes, and tsunami waves as tall as 100 feet could ...

created the huge tsunami also changed the Earth’s rotation. Dr. Benjamin Fong Chao, of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. and Dr. Richard Gross of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, ...

Robert “Bud” Grote was teaching a new group of high-school aged students in Bangkok Friday when he and his students felt the impact of a massive 7.7 earthquake in Myanmar – the epicenter which was ...

An earthquake near Cleveland Sunday night was felt by some Pennsylvanians as well as western New York residents, according to multiple reports. The quake happened at 10:43 p.m. and was centered in ...

A 3.3 magnitude earthquake was detected Thursday morning near Caddo Lake, within Harrison County, in East Texas. The minor quake was detected around 6:15 a.m. on the western end of Caddo Lake.

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- On a clear, warm September day, up on the 62nd floor of Salesforce Tower, which is the highest you can go in an elevator from the ground floor of the building, the 360 degree ...