The Latest Breaking News from Earthquakes

A relatively mild 3.0 magnitude earthquake shook the New York metropolitan area Saturday night

A 3.2-magnitude earthquake hit the Scottish Highlands on Friday

On July 30, one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded struck off the Kamchatka peninsula, in Russia’s far east. Within minutes, tsunami warnings were issued in Russia, much of Asia and across the Pacific in Hawaii, New Zealand and California.

Colombia's former President Alvaro Uribe was convicted of witness tampering and bribery in a historic trial. Latin American nations with a Pacific coast braced for a tsunami that never materialized after one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded, off the coast of Russia. Meanwhile, Chilean investigators closed in on the…

The Greek poet Crinagoras of Mytilene (1st century BC–1st century AD) once addressed a little poem to an earthquake. He asked the quake not to destroy his house:

After a massive earthquake off the coast of Kamchatka, a peninsula in the far east of Russia, on July 30 2025, the world watched as the resultant tsunami spread from the epicentre and across the Pacific Ocean at the speed of a jet plane.

In a high-stakes chess game of international trade, President Donald Trump recently moved his queen, announcing a historic trade deal with South Korea that imposes tight restraints on tariffs and frees billions in cross-border investments. But this is more than a diplomatic headline. ETF investors now face a shifted landscape…

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

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

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

Japan's weather office on Thursday lifted a tsunami advisory imposed a day earlier after Russia's Far East was rocked by one of the strongest earthquakes on record.