The president of Portugal’s Insurers Association says companies and householders should have to pay an automatic earthquake ...

The Italian city has been shaken by its strongest earthquake in 40 years, and is part of a growing pattern of seismic unrest across Southern Europe. Environmental scientist Deborah R. Coen looks at ...

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An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.5 on the Richter scale (initially considered 4.4) was felt on Tuesday night on the islands of Terceira and São Miguel, in the Azores, according to the Portuguese ...

An earthquake measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale rocked Lisbon and surrounding areas on Monday. At a depth of roughly 10km, its impact could be felt across swathes of the affected Portuguese ...

THE LISBON EARTHQUAKE (255 pp.)—T. D. Kendrick—Lippincott ($4). DISASTER AT DUNDEE (240 pp.)—John Prebble—Harcourf, Brace ($4). John Wesley, a specialist in bringing the wicked to their ...

The 1755 earthquake of Lisbon had such a profound effect on the world that we are still feeling its impact today. As well as devastating one of the most important cities of the 18th century ...