This week FM Global, one of the largest commercial property insurers based in the U.S., released the world’s most comprehensive global earthquake risk map to date.

Was that an earthquake you just felt or merely a big truck rumbling by? You don't have to wonder thanks to the U.S.

In the next 30 years, geophysicists predict Istanbul has a 40 to 60 percent chance of a major earthquake, which could imperil its ancient architecture. There are roughly 40,000 historical sites in ...

Stunning Map Reveals World's Earthquakes Since 1898. Andrea Mustain, OurAmazingPlanet Staff Writer . Fri, June 29, 2012 at 1:56 PM UTC. More than 100 years of earthquakes glow on a world map.

Earthquake Map Shows Biggest Global Tremors in 2024 So Far. Published May 06, 2024 at 6:00 AM EDT Updated May 06, 2024 at 8:11 AM EDT. By . Robyn White is a Newsweek Nature Reporter based in ...

What are the biggest earthquakes in history? 5. Russia 1952: Magnitude 9.0 . A magnitude 9.0 earthquake hit Severo-Kurilsk on the Kamchatka Peninsula in east Russia on November 4, 1952.

Powerful earthquakes that shook Turkey and Syria last week had resulted in more than 41,000 deaths as of Tuesday. It is among most devastating and deadliest disasters seen in recent history.

Here are some of the world's deadliest earthquakes in the past 25 years: — Feb. 6, 2023: In Turkey and Syria, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake kills more than 20,000 people. — June 22, 2022: In ...

An earthquake struck the Noto peninsula at around 4:10 p.m., local time, and had a magnitude of 7.6 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. According to the ...