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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...