Geoscience Australia reported the quake just after 2am with an epicentre near the South Gippsland town of Korumburra.

Earth is constantly moving beneath our feet, but most of that movement is too small for us to notice. Every once in a while, however, a fault releases an almost unimaginable amount of energy, sending ...

Editor’s note: This post was updated to include the 1992 Landers earthquake. Few places on earth are as vulnerable to the capricious whims of the planet’s seismic tantrums than the Golden State. Some ...

The Shaky Backbone of California California lies at the boundary between two enormous tectonic plates. These plates don’t ...

(CNN) — Rescuers are desperately searching through piles of rubble in Venezuela after the country was rocked by two powerful earthquakes on Wednesday, leaving scores of people dead and widespread ...

UC Riverside scientists have developed a way to identify where Earth’s biggest earthquakes are most likely to occur, offering a powerful new tool for improving disaster preparations in some of the ...

Researchers at a public university in California say they have developed a way to identify the most likely locations of some of the world’s biggest earthquakes. It comes the same day a quake shook ...

On July 29, 2025, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake occurred near the Kamchatka Peninsula. It was so powerful that it ranks as the sixth-largest earthquake ever recorded by modern instruments. Using this ...

A new study suggests that the surprising behavior of the magnitude 9.1 Tohoku earthquake, which lurched, paused and lurched again multiple times, can be explained by examining how the properties of ...

A new study suggests the risk of "The Big One" in California could be greater than previously believed, raising concerns about the potential for widespread damage across Southern California.