Discover the most powerful earthquakes in US history, from Alaska to California. Learn about their magnitudes, impacts, and ...

On May 22, 1960, the strongest earthquake recorded struck southern Chile. The magnitude 9.5 quake claimed 1,655 lives, left 2 ...

The Great Alaska Earthquake was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the United States. Its violent tremors reshaped ...

An earthquake shook West Texas and southeastern New Mexico Saturday night at an intensity that is among the strongest in Texas history. At 8:47 a.m., a magnitude 5.4 earthquake struck in remote ...

Last week, there were reports that a series of small earthquakes were recorded in California that generated a few news headlines. The state is notorious for earthquake activity. It’s estimated that ...

It was history. On March 11, 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake, magnitude 9.0, struck 80 miles off the Northeast Coast of Japan, generating a series of tsunami waves, some of them 40 feet high.

Ten earthquakes have been magnitude 5 or greater. Texas’ strongest earthquake in history struck around 5:40 a.m. on Aug. 16, 1931. The magnitude 5.8 earthquake was centered about 7.5 miles ...

The East Tennessee earthquake on May 10 was one of the strongest to hit the region since ... Tennessee Valley than flatter areas, but both history and a National Weather Service meteorologist ...

Bond yields inched higher and Wall Street flipped from small gains to losses before the opening bell Thursday after rising ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ... another quake hit the city of the same magnitude. It was the strongest earthquake in the area in four decades.

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s attorney general said Tuesday chemical manufacturer 3M agreed to pay up $450 million to resolve lawsuits over natural resource contamination stemming from PFAS — ...