Today at about 11:30am local time, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula in the country’s far east. Originating at a depth of roughly 20 kilometres, today’s ...

Just off the coast of the Pacific Northwest is the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a complex collection of earthquake faults created by one tectonic plate pushing its way under another. Every 400-600 years, ...

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Sensors and observation instruments being lowered into a borehole off the coast of Japan nearly 1,500 feet below the seafloor during an International Ocean Discovery Program mission in 2016. Sensors ...

The quake in Russia on Wednesday was among the strongest ever recorded — but in many places, the resulting wave was small. By Katrina Miller Early Wednesday morning, a powerful earthquake, one of the ...

One of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded has struck off the coast of Russia' remote Kamchatka Peninsula, setting off tsunami warnings across Japan, Hawaii and parts of the US west coast. The ...

When a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck offshore of the Kamchatka Peninsula in eastern Russia on July 29, tsunami warnings quickly followed. The quake is tied with two other historic temblors to be the ...

Hundreds of small earthquakes have rattled Mount Rainier this week in the largest swarm of tremors in more than a decade. But experts say there's no need to panic -- at least not yet. "Currently, ...

A massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake has rocked Russia's far east — and what followed is nothing short of volcanic chaos. Six volcanoes erupted in quick succession across the Kamchatka Peninsula, a ...

Klyuchevskoy volcano in eastern Russia began erupting shortly after a powerful 8.8 magnitude earthquake and several aftershocks shook the same area. "A descent of hot lava is observed on the western ...