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

Towering structures must be able to bend and sway when subjected to the forces of wind and ground movement, or they will ...

Flooding during a Cascadia region earthquake would alter the topography and ecosystems of the coastal region for years to ...

Global distribution of natural and induced seismicity. Natural earthquakes with moment magnitude higher than 5 are ...

There isn’t zero probability of earthquakes in the Rochester area, but it is much lower than in regions of the state with ...

A tropical storm has blown away from the northern Philippine region of Luzon, killing at least seven people after forcing over 22,000 to evacuate.

Hawaiian Volcano Observatory reported at 9:13 a.m. that a magnitude-4.2 earthquake rattled the Big Island and beyond about 45 minutes earlier at 8:26 a.m. Sunday morning (Oct. 19). It struck 11 miles ...

In December 1989, the United Nations declared Oct. 13 International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction. At the time, the aim was ...

Locals in coastal areas were ordered to evacuate immediately and see higher ground. Follow Newsweek for live updates.

Continuous rainfall and flash floods on October 4 and 5 have forced the shutdown of five major hydropower plants across the country. The affected projects are Tala, Suchhu, Dagachhu, Punatsangchhu-II, ...