One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Russia's Far East early Wednesday, causing tsunami waves to wash ashore in Japan and Alaska and calls for people around the Pacific to be on alert ...

Yesterday there was a magnitude 7 earthquake in Tohoku (almost 300 miles from Tokyo). I was on the 8th floor at school when it happened. Luckily it was only a magnitude 4 by the time it got ...

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 ...