The earthquake was ranked as a 9.2 magnitude out of 10, and was the second largest ever recorded around the world, coming in after a magnitude 9.5 hit Chile in 1960.

According to a list compiled by 24/7 Wall St., the worst natural disaster to ever occur in California was The San Francisco ...

The strongest earthquake ever recorded in South Carolina — and on the East Coast of the United States — was a devastating 7.3 in Charleston in 1886. That quake killed 60 people and was felt ...

In 1960, in the Chilean province of Valdivia, a 9.5 magnitude earthquake made history as the most powerful ever recorded with instruments ... Hundreds of people lost their lives at that moment, but ...

By Emily Burnham, Bangor Daily News Staff Though Maine is quiet seismologically compared with hotspots like California, ...

This aftershock has been called the deepest earthquake ever recorded. Instead, their study found a distribution of aftershocks that is compatible with a 12-kilometer sliver of a mantle mineral ...

What was the biggest earthquake in NH history? The strongest earthquakes with an epicenter in New Hampshire in recorded state history happened four days apart in December of 1940. Each had a ...