SANTIAGO, Chile -- Thousands of residents of this small city in northern Chile slept outside Thursday after a powerful earthquake destroyed their homes, forced more than 1 million to evacuate and ...

A strong earthquake struck the Drake Passage region on Thursday (local time), according to the US Geological Survey (USGS), which downgraded the intensity of the quake from magnitude 8 to 7.5. While ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Fears of a devastating tsunami faded Wednesday for the U.S. and Japan after one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck off a sparsely populated Russian peninsula, but new ...

(Reuters) - Chile lifted the tsunami warning early on Thursday it had put in place after Wednesday's major earthquake, the government said. "The tsunami warning is lifted for all national territory," ...

A major earthquake just offshore rattled Chileans, killing five people and shaking the Earth so strongly the tremor was felt in places across South America. Authorities worked into the early hours ...

The July 29 M8.8 Kamchatka tsunami arguably caused more damage and certainly accrued more media coverage than the shaking losses. Two months out, we have a better picture of what happened, how the ...

A massive earthquake of 8.8 magnitude struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula early on Wednesday, triggering widespread tsunami waves of up to 5m (16ft) and sparked evacuation orders in Hawaii and ...