The vast majority of earthquakes strike inside the Ring of Fire, a string of volcanoes and tectonic activity that wraps ...
Take the massive Chi-Chi earthquake, which caused extensive damage in Taiwan in the fall of 1999 and killed more than 2,400 people. The distribution of damage followed an uneven pattern ...
Türkiye’s southern provinces were hit with devastating earthquakes that left more than 53,000 people dead and over 107,000 ...
Akiyoshi Nishimura, a professor of forensic medicine at Tokushima University who analyzed causes of deaths in the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake, emphasized the importance of reinforcing homes agai ...
Residents on the popular island of Santorini have experienced hundreds of earthquakes this week while researchers have ...
Thousands of people evacuated Santorini after a series of earthquakes in recent days hit the picturesque Greek island with ...
More than 60,000 people were killed in the twin earthquakes — a second quake with a magnitude of 7.6 followed a few hours after the first — although many believe the real number of fatalities is ...
A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck southern Taiwan early Tuesday, injuring 27 people and causing structural damage in Chiayi and Tainan. Rescuers freed residents from a collapsed house and trapped ...
Thousands of survivors held torchlit vigils across southern Turkey at 4:17 am Thursday, expressing pain and anger as they ...
On New Year's Day in 2024, a devastating earthquake in the Noto Peninsula upended the region. A new study debunks claims that a magnitude 4.5 earthquake in Iran was a covert nuclear weapons test ...