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21 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: September 7, 2026.
Jan Mayen has been seismically active for as long as anyone has watched it. Forty years of satellite images show nothing like the debris field the March 2025 quake produced.
WatchThe U.S. Geological Survey put the epicenter beneath San Jose del Palmar in the jungle department of Choco. The deaths are concentrated in Cali, Pereira and the coffee belt.
Rescuers drilled through collapsed concrete for a third day after Tuesday's magnitude 7.1 earthquake, while nearly 19,000 homes sat without power and a heatstroke alert went out over the shelters.
WatchTwo weeks after twin quakes flattened swaths of the country, acting President Delcy Rodríguez has declared national mourning while rescuers still pull survivors from the rubble.
Two weeks after twin magnitude-7.2 and 7.5 earthquakes struck near Caracas, rescuers are still pulling survivors from the rubble — and officials warn the final toll could climb far higher.
WatchEleven days after two powerful earthquakes flattened swaths of Venezuela's coast, rescuers are still pulling survivors and bodies from the rubble — and a forensic pathologist says the official toll may be barely a third of the real number.
The U.S.-French SWOT satellite mapped the Pacific tsunami unleashed by a magnitude 8.8 Kamchatka earthquake, revealing waves far more scattered and complex than the textbook picture of a single, stable surge.
The quake off Iwate Prefecture rattled buildings as far as Tokyo and registered violent shaking in Aomori, but officials issued no tsunami warning.
WatchA magnitude 7.2 quake struck the country's coast Wednesday evening, followed 39 seconds later by a 7.5 — Venezuela's most powerful in more than a century — flattening buildings across Caracas, La Guaira and Valencia.
Researchers modeling the San Andreas and San Jacinto systems found Cajon Pass acting as an 'earthquake gate' that could let a rupture jump both faults at once near Los Angeles.
A powerful offshore quake struck Mindanao on the first day of the school year, triggering a tsunami warning, landslides and more than 1,000 aftershocks across Sarangani and General Santos City.
WatchThe strongest earthquake to strike the Philippines this year flattened buildings, set off coastal waves and a deadly landslide, and forced mass evacuations across Sarangani and General Santos.
The quake struck off the southern Philippines at dawn Monday, collapsing a hospital, a supermarket and a restaurant and triggering tsunami warnings across the Pacific before they were largely lifted.
WatchA magnitude 7.8 quake struck off the southern island of Mindanao on Monday morning, collapsing buildings in General Santos, triggering a small tsunami and sending students fleeing during first-day flag ceremonies.
The quake jolted Mindanao early Monday, collapsing buildings in General Santos City and prompting evacuation orders for nine provinces as waves of up to three meters were forecast.
Reanalyzing a faint 1979 tremor near the Utah-Idaho-Wyoming border, University of Utah researchers proved a rare class of 'continental mantle earthquakes' is rupturing rock that textbooks said should only slowly flow.
Newly mapped Lytle Beach and Vasa Park faults last cracked open around 1833, putting four million people in the Puget Sound region at greater near-term shaking risk than the much larger Cascadia subduction megathrust offshore.
WatchWaves up to 1.8 meters struck harbor towns; Japan’s seawall network credited with limiting inland damage near 2011 disaster zone.
The region's strongest quake in six years killed one person, displaced nearly 2,000, and damaged hospitals and government buildings.
Natural disasters kill at least 89 people this week while destroying thousands of homes in country already struggling with humanitarian challenges.
The deep-focus quake centered 95 miles west of Neiafu rattled nearby Pacific islands but caused no significant damage, its destructive power dissipated by a depth of 148 miles below the ocean floor.