“We’d see a lot of bridges collapsing,” said Snohomish County Emergency Management Director Lucia Schmit. “We’d see a lot of ...

Unfortunately, natural disasters can happen anywhere, and at anytime. The last sad example is the earthquake in Turkey. Luckily, people always come up with new, sometimes even crazy, stuff that will ...

Greek authorities declared a state of emergency on a second Greek island on Wednesday, as thousands of earthquakes continue to affect the southeastern Aegean Sea region. The emergency was called ...

Ten months of unrest at Mount Spurr could be a sign of an upcoming eruption from a side vent or, less likely, from the main ...

After the terrible earthquake of 1956, its residents cast a black stone behind them, selling their properties—even for a tin ...

Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

And what might happen in the coming days and weeks ... Nearby faults are known to have produced earthquakes before. For example, in 1956, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake here also produced a damaging ...

“We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events,” ...

Dr Margarita Segou from the British Geological Survey described the quakes as happening every day ... that when a more significant earthquake strikes, for example a magnitude four, the "seismicity ...

Seven successive tremors measuring over 4.0 magnitude were recorded in the early morning by the Athens Geodynamic Institute, Greece's leading authority on earthquake analysis. This was after a 5.2 ...

Shortly after the earthquake, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pledged 319,000 new homes by February 2024, with a total of 680,000 by 2025. This was just months ahead of general elections, and these ...

They were out in the cold to mark the 2 year anniversery of when a 7.8 magnitiude earthquake struck the area. The quake was the deadliest and most destructive in ...