leading to one of the biggest nuclear disasters in history. This earthquake was the largest ever recorded in Japan, and cost an estimated $309 billion in damage. For weeks afterward, strong ...

Discover the most powerful earthquakes in US history, from Alaska to California. Learn about their magnitudes, impacts, and ...

It is the second largest earthquake ever recorded, next to the 9.5 earthquake in Chile in 1960, according to USGS. “They have little rumbles every day up there. …That was the worst and only ...

Get in touch with Chloe Mayer by emailing c.mayer@newsweek.com Texans were rocked by a "notable" 5.1 magnitude earthquake ... hitting the state. The biggest quake ever recorded in the state ...

America has endured even stronger quakes throughout its history. The largest earthquake ever to hit the continental US struck the Cascadia Subduction Zone—a fault line off the Pacific coast of ...

From the devastating Sumatran quake and tsunami of 2004 to a monstrous temblor in Siberia that, thankfully, killed no one, here are the largest earthquakes ever recorded, according to the U.S ...