Jakarta is one of the largest cities in the world and one of the most earthquake-prone. It is located within the Pacific Ring ...

On this fateful Thursday, an event of apocalyptic proportions struck China’s Shaanxi province, killing an estimated 830,000 people in what remains the single deadliest earthquake in recorded ...

It was the deadliest natural disaster in the country since the 1960 9.5 magnitude quake, the strongest ever recorded in the ...

On March 11, 2011, a major earthquake and a subsequent tsunami caused the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan. In 2004, ...

(photo credit: REUTERS/Abdelhak Balhaki) A powerful earthquake in Morocco has killed more than 2,122 people and injured thousands more more, the country's deadliest tremor in more than six decades ...

A small earthquake occurred just north of Bremerton in Kitsap County at approximately 5:15 a.m. The Pacific Northwest Seismic ...

Preliminary measurements by different agencies often differ slightly. China’s deadliest earthquake in recent years was a 7.9 magnitude quake in 2008 that killed nearly 90,000 people in Sichuan.

For those traveling through Japan’s Iwate prefecture, a visit to Takata Matsubara Memorial Park for Tsunami Disaster and the ...

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