The Latest Breaking News from Earthquakes

Why did such a powerful earthquake and tsunami cause so little damage?

The 8.8-magnitude quake triggered a global race against time – and showed how much had been learned since 2004

The Guardian - UK · Jul 31, 2025

Japanese woman evacuating amid tsunami warning dies after car falls off road

Most Pacific nations drop tsunami warnings about 24 hours after one of the most powerful earthquakes hit Russia

The Independent UK · Jul 31, 2025

'Sleeping giant' fault beneath Canada could unleash a major earthquake, research suggests

A new assessment of the enormous Tintina fault suggests it has been slowly accumulating strain over thousands of years.

LiveScience · Jul 31, 2025

Google has turned 2 billion smartphones into a global earthquake warning system — it's as effective as seismometers, tests show

Google's earthquake early-warning system has used phone accelerometers on Android devices to increase quake alerts by tenfold across 98 countries.

LiveScience · Jul 30, 2025

Russia earthquake: Magnitude 8.8 megaquake hits Kamchatka, generating tsunamis across the Pacific

The 8.8 magnitude megaquake is the joint-sixth largest earthquake ever recorded and the first tsunami waves have already hit Oahu, Hawaii.

LiveScience · Jul 30, 2025

The 21 largest recorded earthquakes in history

A handful of regions around the world regularly unleash terrifyingly large earthquakes. Here are the 21 largest earthquakes on record.

LiveScience · Jul 30, 2025

The Russia earthquake was among the world’s strongest. Here’s what links them all

The 8.8 magnitude quake is the biggest worldwide since 2011

The Independent UK · Jul 30, 2025

The strongest earthquakes ever recorded: Where does Russia's 8.8 magnitude quake rank in history?

The recent earthquake in Russia reopens the memory of some of the most devastating earthquakes mankind has ever experienced.

Euronews · Jul 30, 2025

Kamchatka earthquake is among top 10 strongest ever recorded. Here’s what they have in common

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.

The Conversation · Jul 30, 2025

Tsunami warnings are triggering mass evacuations across the Pacific – even though the waves look small. Here’s why

One of the ten largest earthquakes ever recorded just struck Kamchatka, the sparsely populated Russian peninsula facing the Pacific. The magnitude 8.8 quake had its epicentre in the sea just off the Kamchatka coast.

The Conversation · Jul 30, 2025