A giant whale and some dolphins hovered above the military veterans at the opening ceremony of the Invictus Games from the ceiling of the Vancouver BC's place stadium. The sea creatures signify ...

ODAKA, Japan >> Every year when winter finally loosens its grip on northern Japan, Tomoko Kobayashi begins what has become an annual rite for her and a small band of collaborators. They head out with ...

The Semipalatinsk Test Site, also called the Polygon, is lesser known but was used by the Soviet Union to test nuclear ...

Radioactive materials are found naturally in the Earth. But even so, saying an area is radioactive can conjure up images of ...

A minor, 3.5-magnitude earthquake struck in Southern California on Saturday, according to the United States Geological Survey ...

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

A series of small earthquakes shook the San Francisco Bay Area on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey.

Did you feel it? So far, 736 people reported feeling the 3.7 magnitude earthquake that struck near Port Angeles, Washington, ...

The Ring of Fire exists where the Pacific Plate, which sits under the ocean, meets with many other tectonic plates. The Ring of Fire is where most of Earth's really big earthquakes happen.

From late July to October 2022, residents of the Manu'a Islands in American Samoa felt the earth shake several times a day, ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A Tsunami Advisory was in effect for Puerto Rico and nearby islands for part of Saturday evening after a powerful earthquake ... and strong ocean currents that could ...

A powerful 7.6 magnitude earthquake in the Caribbean Sea Saturday night, north of Honduras and southwest of the Cayman Islands, briefly triggered tsunami alerts that were later lifted. The U.S ...