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 ...

The Lisbon earthquake is the most famous natural disaster in European history. In the space of little more than an hour on the morning of 1 November 1755, while much of the city’s population was at ...

The death toll from Friday's massive earthquake that jolted the Thai capital Bangkok has climbed to 17, with 32 people ...

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 ...

An earthquake measuring 4.8 on the Richter scale struck Lisbon on Monday, the Portuguese Sea and Atmosphere Institute (IPMA) has reported. The earthquake's epicentre was recorded around 14 ...

The U.S. Virgin Islands took part in the annual Caribe Wave tsunami preparedness exercise Thursday, engaging residents and ...

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 ...