The world has witnessed several catastrophic earthquakes, with the 1960 Valdivia, Chile quake topping the list at magnitude 9 ...

An 8.8-magnitude earthquake, one of the largest in the past century, struck off the coast of Russia this week, prompting ...

But the danger appeared to be waning in some places, with the US state of Hawaii and Japan downgrading their warnings.

A powerful quake off Russia's coast may have set off a chain reaction across the Ring of Fire, raising the risk of an ...

Japan’s meteorological agency issued a tsunami alert for Japan’s Pacific coast, upgrading an earlier advisory stemming from the powerful, magnitude 8.0 quake near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula ...