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Residents of the US’s West Coast have long feared “The Big One” – the apparently inevitable massive earthquake that will one day hit where the Pacific tectonic plate meets its North American neighbor.

A massive 7.7-magnitude earthquake has killed at least 1,650 people in Myanmar and Thailand, leaving the region reeling as rescuers pick through vast piles of rubble to find missing people. Thousands ...

Where were you at 10:54 a.m. on February 28, 2001? At that moment, 25 years ago, there was a whole lotta shaking going on as the Nisqually Earthquake struck western Washington. The 6.8 magnitude quake ...

The U.S. Geological Survey recorded the earthquake south of Shreveport.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The aftermath of a 2007 earthquake in Folkestone, Kent, that registered a magnitude of at least 4.3 - Edward Thompson/Getty Images ...

Nov 3 (Reuters) - A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck near the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif early on Monday, killing at least seven people and injuring about 150, just months after a quake and ...

Geoscience Australia has, so far, received 7378 "felt reports", with people submitting reports of their experience of the earthquake. It was the biggest earthquake to hit the Canberra region in almost ...

New findings published in the journal Science help explain why the 2011 earthquake off the coast of Japan created such a large tsunami. An international team of geologists and geophysicists drilled ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. An earthquake strong enough to awaken people across the region rattled the San Francisco Bay Area early Monday.

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