Aliza Chasan is a Digital Content Producer for "60 Minutes" and CBSNews.com. She has previously written for outlets including PIX11 News, The New York Daily News, Inside Edition and DNAinfo.

The United States is a big country, and many parts of the country are in areas of active tectonic activities. This makes them prone to tremors, earthquakes, and all the natural hazards they come with.

Earthquakes are expected to cost the United States $14.7 billion each year due to ground-shaking-related damage to buildings, according to USGS and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

This couldn't be farther from the truth. Several major and numerous minor earthquakes have occurred in the midwestern and eastern United States, as well as eastern Canada. Over 900,000 earthquakes ...

The United States, with its extensive and diverse geography, has felt some of the strongest and most destructive earthquakes ever recorded. Although states such as California are notoriously ...

site, putting it only ninth on the list ... Large earthquakes offshore or near the coast have the potential to produce damaging tsunamis. It is not just a Pacific problem — states and ...

SEATTLE — The threat of an earthquake at any given moment in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho is real. Right below our feet is the meeting place of multiple tectonic plates, slowly moving and ...

A total of more than 100 people in the tsunami zone, from Alaska and down the Pacific coasts of Canada and the United States, were killed. April 25, 1992: Cape Mendocino earthquake and tsunami The ...