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

5. Earthquakes Are Not Affected By Weather – Lots of kids who live in cold places look forward to blizzards and huge snow storms because they know school will be closed when the snow starts ...

SANDPOINT, Idaho - Multiple earthquake shook northern Idaho Thursday night and early Friday morning.According to the United States Geological Survey, the largest was a 4.2 magnitude that hit just ...

Oct. 10, 2005 — -- Seismologists, the scientists who study earthquakes, estimate that several million earthquakes occur each year. Only a handful cause major damage, as the one that struck ...

Image by Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology. Explore a larger, interactive version of the map here. Fact or fiction: We can predict earthquakes. Fact or fiction: Animals can predict ...

2. An earthquake can affect the length of a day. On 11 March 2011, an 8.9 magnitude earthquake which struck northeast Japan altered the distribution of the earth’s mass, causing it to rotate ...

A massive magnitude-8.8 earthquake struck near the coast of south-central Chile in the early hours of Saturday, shaking buildings in the capital Santiago, 200 miles away and triggering a tsunami ...

The San Andreas is capable of creating big, destructive earthquakes. Earthquakes are measured in magnitude on a scale that starts at zero. In this scale, each whole number represents an earthquake ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) – The 1994 Northridge earthquake shook Los Angeles residents from their sleep, caused freeways to crumble and flattened buildings. It was the last deadly quake to strike a U.S ...

Quick facts about earthquakes. Where the most earthquakes happen: The Pacific "Ring of Fire," where many tectonic plates meet The biggest earthquake ever recorded: A magnitude 9.5 earthquake in ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 shook parts of Britain on Wednesday, but officials said there were no reports of anyone being killed or serious damage.