US Geological Survey

The tsunami threat around the Pacific from a huge undersea volcanic eruption began to recede Sunday.

A strong 5.9-magnitude earthquake hit off the Chilean coastline on Saturday morning, the US Geological Survey said.

A 5.0 magnitude earthquake was registered on Friday in the central part of Papua New Guinea, the US Geological Survey said.

Volcano scientists issued an alert Wednesday, warning that a cloud of ash — from an eruption more than century ago — was headed toward Alaska’s Kodiak Island.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 jolted the Vanuatu region at 10:58:30 GMT on Saturday, the US Geological Survey said.

One of the most active volcanos on Earth is erupting on Hawaii’s Big Island.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 jolted 78 km west of Murghob, Tajikistan

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 jolted Indonesia

Fossilized footprints discovered in New Mexico indicate that early humans were walking across North America around 23,000 years ago