The earthquake struck the city of Chillán particularly hard, leaving much of it in ruins and leading to one of the deadliest natural disasters in the country’s history. This event highlighted ...

Jakarta is one of the largest cities in the world and one of the most earthquake-prone. It is located within the Pacific Ring ...

A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 that killed more than 50 people in western China near Nepal on Tuesday was one of the country's deadliest in recent years. Earthquakes in China happen ...

According to the USGS, the earthquake caused light to moderate shaking in the Los Angeles area but no significant damage has ...

The popular tourist spot therefore has a high likelihood of complete destruction if hit with a deadly earthquake. However, a new project costing billions hopes to remedy this. Recent research ...

Fair weather with breezy trades are in place across Guam and the southern CNMI but a shear line is dropping southward through ...

Major Sichuan earthquakes in recent times included the magnitude 8.0 disaster centred in Wenchuan in 2008, which killed hundreds of thousands and flattened entire villages, as well as two deadly ...

A series of earthquakes shook the popular tourist island this week and prompted over 10,000 residents and workers to evacuate. Two years after the deadliest and most destructive earthquake in ...

A study conducted by the Bucharest Community Foundation, through the Bucurestiul Pregatit/Bucharest Ready program, shows that ...

Governments in the region rely on short-term forecasting to avert disaster. Following a deadly earthquake in L’Aquila, Italy in 2009, six seismologists were convicted of manslaughter because ...

The chairman of the people's government of the Tibet Autonomous Region on Thursday said classes have resumed in Dingri County ...