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Scientists estimate that the magnitude 9.1 Indian Ocean earthquake in 2004 released energy equivalent to 23,000 Hiroshima-type atomic bombs.

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Gaspar de Portola was the first European to record feeling an earthquake in California. In 1769, his group was campong about 48 km (30 mi) southeast of Los Angeles when a quake struck.

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The San Andreas Fault is around 1,200 km long and can produce an earthquake measuring 8.0 on the Richter scale.

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The Ring of Fire is a zone in the Pacific Ocean that spans New Zealand, Indonesia, Japan, Alaska, and the west coasts of North, Central, and South America. About nine in 10 of the world's Earthquakes occur there. The next most seismic region (about five in 100) is the Alpide belt, which extends from the Mediterranean region through Turkey, Iran and Northern India.

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European settlers experienced their first earthquake in America in 1663.

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There are two ways an earthquake can create a tsunami. The first is when shifts in the seabed caused by undersea earthquakes displace large quantities of water; the second is when large quantities of rock break and fall into the water (during an earthquake, or when a meteorite hits a water surface). The largest tsunami wave ever recorded took place on July 9, 1958, when an earthquake in Alaska Loosened 30.6 million cubic meters of rock. The rock fell from an altitude of approximately 914 m into the water, creating a wave as high as 524 m above sea level.

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Japan has experienced many earthquakes in its history. Out of the 500 ancient wooden pagodas still standing in the country, only two have collapses in the past 1,400 years. In fact, the shape of a pagoda is known for resisting damage from earthquakes.

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it has long been thought that animals can detect oncoming earthquakes. There was a mass exodus of toads from a pond in L'Aquila, Italy, before the 2009 earthquake struck, and hibernating snakes left their burrows a month before an earthquake struck Haicheng, China, in 1975. One theory is that stressed rocks release charged particles, which then react with groundwater. Animals living near groundwater are very sensitive to any changes in the chemistry of the water and could alter their behavior as a result.

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Because of moving plates, geologists predict that Los Angeles will be next to San Francisco in 15 million years, and near Alaska in 85 million years.

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There are about 500,000 earthquakes a year, but 400,000 are too small for us to feel. Only around 100 earthquakes cause any damage each year.