SEATTLE — Tuesday's 8.8 magnitude earthquake is the largest detected on the planet since March of 2011, when a violent 9.0 shook Tohoku, Japan. This earthquake triggered a devastating tsunami, with ...

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded a grant of more than $750,000 to UC Santa Cruz seismologist Emily Brodsky. The grant funds Brodsky’s research to better understand the fault that ...

An 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, triggering tsunami warnings across the Pacific. The quake, the largest since the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, occurred on a "megathrust ...

An 8.8-magnitude earthquake, one of the strongest ever recorded, struck Russia's Far East early Wednesday, prompting tsunami warnings in coastal towns in multiple countries. The earthquake was "on ...