The Valdivian Earthquake, or the Great Chilean Earthquake, is the largest on record. It measured in at a magnitude of 9.5.

A massive earthquake has hit near Tonga, prompting fears of a tsunami for the Pacific island country. The US Geological ...

What are the biggest earthquakes in history as huge 7.7 magnitude hits Myanmar? - Massive Myanmar earthquake causes ...

The US Geological Survey (USGS) says an increase or decrease in global seismicity does not necessarily indicate that a large ...

Its magnitude has been recalculated after being originally ... California, Peru, and the Galapagos Islands. A 9.1-magnitude earthquake and tsunami off the west coast of northern Sumatra on Dec ...

7.7 magnitude earthquake ... tsunami waves hit. Some 39 per cent of Severo-Kurilsk’s population died, according to the Western States Seismic Policy Council. The waves also travelled across the ...

Earthquakes are measured using seismographs, which monitor the seismic waves that travel through the Earth after an earthquake ... are killed in Peru by an 8.4-magnitude earthquake.