There are other jolts in the calm. Within hours of recent shootings, a local San Francisco elementary school went into ...

Chances are, you still believe this outdated earthquake-safety advice. Here's what you should do instead when the shaking ...

The new earthquake-prone building system announced by the Government today will only capture buildings deemed to “pose a ...

A major earthquake could hit the Pacific Northwest at any moment. It’s not a matter of if, but when. And, with students back to school this fall, some in unreinforced, 100-year-old buildings, most ...

A disaster preparedness plan is important for government agencies and villages, but it is even more important for every ...

An earthquake swept through California’s San Francisco Bay Area yesterday, and scientists say that more could impact the ...

Arroyo, now a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his colleagues created itty-bitty lab ...

Up to 98 percent of the energy of an earthquake goes into flash heating rocks, not shaking the ground, new research shows. The finding could help yield better earthquake forecasts ...

Most earthquake energy turns into heat rather than ground shaking, sometimes hot enough to melt rock in microseconds. MIT’s ...

The United Nations says earthquake survivors in Afghanistan are enduring dire living conditions, struggling with destroyed homes, ...

In late January, something began to stir beneath the idyllic Greek islands of Santorini, Amorgos, and Anafi. These Aegean ...

Devils Hole, located in the Death Valley National Park, Nevada, is home to the tiny and endangered pupfish. According to Fox ...