The Northwest is itself overdue for a megaquake — one we are ready for on neither a personal nor political level.

After an 8.8-magnitude earthquake off the eastern Russian coast sparked tsunami warnings throughout the Pacific, millions of ...

A massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula has triggered tsunami warnings from Japan to Hawaii, with ...

An earthquake of magnitude 8.8 - one of the world's strongest-struck Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula early on ...

An 8.8-magnitude earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula shook the Pacific, but its tsunami fizzled. A geologist explains ...

A massive earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale struck Russia’s Kuril Islands on Sunday, sending tremors across the ...

The Earth’s crust is made of rock that is very hard and brittle at the small scale and near the surface. But over very large ...

It seems that for the size of the earthquake, the tsunami has been rather small. To understand why, we can look to geology.

The magnitude 8.8 quake is believed to be the joint sixth-largest on record, though only minor injuries near the epicenter ...

A powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia's far-eastern Kamchatka Peninsula Tuesday triggered tsunami waves across the ...

Earthquakes and tsunamis remain among the most devastating natural disasters on the planet, especially for countries located ...

A powerful earthquake off the coast of Russia triggered tsunami warnings in Hawaii, Alaska and all along the west coast, but ...