The natural disaster hit eight months after the Philippines suffered its deadliest tremor in 12 years, when a shallow 6.9-magnitude quake hit off the island of Cebu, killing 79 people.

Stanford University researchers have pulled back a curtain on a hidden part of Earth that rarely makes headlines. Their new work maps a strange kind of earthquake that starts deep below the crust, inside the continental mantle. The team says the map could ...

Roughly 90 percent of the planet’s earthquakes strike along a single geologic feature: a 40,000-kilometer arc of colliding tectonic plates that frames the Pacific Ocean. Known as the Ring of Fire, this horseshoe-shaped belt of subduction zones,

Earthquakes account for some of the costliest natural disasters in history. They can literally reshape the planet. But how powerful can they get? That's a question humans have only recently been able to answer. We didn't actually develop the technology to ...

Magnitude 4.1 earthquake hits near Las Vegas, USGS says after shallow tremor in Summerlin South.