A powerful 6.3 magnitude earthquake shook northern Afghanistan before dawn Monday, killing at least 20 people and injuring ...

At least 20 people were killed and about 320 injured after a powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck Afghanistan early Monday morning, shaking the city of Mazar-e Sharif. The disaster hit just months ...

A powerful earthquake has rattled northern Afghanistan, killing more than a dozen people, injuring hundreds and damaging one ...

Sharif, a northern city known for its magnificent Blue Mosque. The extent of the damage was not immediately clear.

A powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake shook northern Afghanistan before dawn Monday, killing at least 10 people and injuring ...

At least five people have been killed and scores were injured after a powerful magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck near one of northern Afghanistan’s largest cities, the country’s disaster ...

Known as earthquake lights, these luminous phenomena have left geologists and physicists searching for answers. Typically ...

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident reinforced the importance of having adequate national and international safety standards and guidelines in place so that nuclear power and technology remain safe ...

For years, textbooks taught that shallow faults—cracks in the Earth’s upper crust—were too stable to cause earthquakes. Once ...

First quakes are the most dangerous: Once a healed fault ruptures for the first time, it cannot generate another major ...