Earthquakes happen every day all over the world, along both tectonic plate edges and interiors. Earthquakes occur along faults, which are fractures between blocks of rock that allow the blocks to move ...

there's an earthquake somewhere in the world. Although, don't worry. Most are minor. The Earth's surface is made up of a number of plates that are almost always moving. Most earthquakes happen ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The US Geological Survey (USGS) estimates that millions of earthquakes occur every year, but only one of them will be a "great earthquake" — that is, one with a ...