Earthquakes occur more often than you think. Here’s what you need to know about where they usually happen and how they’re ...

A tsunami is a series of ocean waves that sends surges of water, sometimes reaching heights of over 100 feet (30.5 meters), ...

The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries: convergent, where plates move into one another; ...

Also known as the Circum-Pacific Belt, the Ring of Fire traces the meeting points of many tectonic plates, including the ...

Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, the area in which a magnitude 8.8. earthquake occurred on July 29, is within the so-called ...

The Krasheninnikov volcano’s first eruption in centuries is believed to have been triggered in part by the massive earthquake ...

Gran Canaria, one of Spain’s Canary Islands and a go-to holiday spot for Britons, was shaken by its largest earthquake in 60 ...