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

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, there is an estimated 500,000 detectable earthquakes each year – "100,000 of those can be felt, and 100 of them cause damage." You may remember learning ...

A schematic diagram of the faulting processes of the 2024 M7.6 Noto Peninsula earthquake sequence. The crustal processes and faults broken during the long-lasting intense earthquake swarm are ...