Flipping through a photo album, Wayne Hendrickson recalls the day when he witnessed the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in North America ...

The Valdivian Earthquake, or the Great Chilean Earthquake, is the largest on record. It measured in at a magnitude of 9.5. off the coast of Chile near Valdivia and Puerto Montt area.

Also known as the Good Friday Earthquake, a 9.2 quake in southern Alaska and tsunami killed 131 people and caused over $2 billion in damage across the cities of Anchorage, Chitina, Glennallen ...

2. Alaska, USA, 1964: Magnitude 9.2 On March 27, 1964, the United States faced its most powerful earthquake since records began. Known as the Good Friday earthquake, it affected almost all of Alaska ...

BANGKOK — A massive earthquake that rocked Myanmar could exacerbate ... The 7.7 magnitude quake hit Friday, with an epicenter near Myanmar’s second-largest city of Mandalay, damaging the ...