A 6.7 magnitude earthquake shook part of central Indonesia's Sulawesi island Tuesday, causing scattered damage and rattling residents of a city devastated by a…

China is building a dam system that will generate more hydroelectric power than the U.S. generates yearly. But the project comes with huge risks for people dow…

Antarctica was long thought to be seismically calm, but new technology makes it possible to detect unexpected types of earthquakes beneath the ice.

Speaking after the Angelus prayer on Sunday, the pontiff assured the people of the country of his prayers.

Researchers combining two methods to reconstruct the rupture evolution of the July 2025 magnitude 8.8 Kamchatka earthquake found the rupture from the megathrus…

Filipino Church groups have launched emergency donation drives and backed government relief operations in the aftermath of a powerful magnitude-7.8 earthquake …

Hundreds of aftershocks have jolted southern Philippines after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake left dozens of people dead and hundreds more injured. The scale of d…

Rescue teams in the Philippines are racing to reach survivors after a powerful magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the country’s south, killing at least 37 people …

‘Odd’ Gulf of Mexico earthquake rattles Florida and Cuba This earthquake may be among the biggest in the Gulf of Mexico’s history By Jackie Flynn Mogensen ed…

A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck just west of Cuba in the southern Gulf on Monday, causing shakes across southwestern Florida.

Earthquakes usually occur along fracture zones in Earth's crust, where large tectonic plates slide past one another and become locked. Stress builds up over lo…