Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

Scientists have detected several thousand earthquakes, the vast majority of them with small magnitudes, in just over two ...

The Greek island has a long history of earthquakes, but what is causing the recent series of quakes has scientists perplexed.

The 1956 earthquake was a mainshock–aftershock sequence, with aftershocks lasting at least eight months after the mainshock.