What is the biggest earthquake in the United States?
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Welcome to CoreFacts, where we're always short on time and big on science. I'm Steve Sobieszczyk. Today's question is:
What is the biggest earthquake in the United States?
Since 1900, the earthquake in Alaska on March 28, 1964, was the biggest earthquake in the United States, with magnitude 9.2 Mw. This earthquake was also the second biggest earthquake in the World.
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