Earthquakes are natural phenomena characterized by the sudden shaking of the Earth’s surface. They result from the release of ...

New research uncovers a surprising clue in earthquake forecasting: tiny curved scratches on fault planes. These marks reveal ...

About 90% of earthquakes happen along the Pacific Ring of Fire, which stretches all the way from New Zealand, up through Indonesia and Japan, across the Pacific at Alaska's Aleutian Islands ...

Once devastated by earthquakes, New Zealand’s second-largest city is bursting with new restaurants, gleaming architecture and ...

A 4.5 magnitude quake has rattled central New Zealand this afternoon. The quake struck at 4.33pm 10km south of Seddon. It was ...

A shocking video taken on the island and shared on social media shows the coastline of Santorini shaking violently with clouds of dust billowing into the air after an earthquake which reached ...

That damage included the US, British, French, and New Zealand embassies, submarine internet cables ... Centre continued to support the bank’s full range of operations. The earthquake physically ...

There are few places in the U.S. with a tougher housing market than Los Angeles, meaning there are few places where the destruction of several thousand homes would be harder to bear. By one estimate, ...

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake shook buildings in Taiwan on Thursday morning, as a series of temblors hit the island, causing ...

Last month, the Philippine Senate ratified the same defense agreement with Japan. The Southeast Asian country has also signed ...

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