Seismologists describe potential damage forecasts from ground shaking scenarios for moderate earthquakes in three regions of the Mexico City basin.

A recent swarm of small shallow earthquakes in Mexico City in 2019 and 2023 caused surprisingly strong ground shaking, ...

It also explores possible precautions to minimise the damage caused by earthquakes and, in this way, illustrates to pupils the link between physical and human geography. This short film introduces ...

The tallest volcano in Europe, Italy's Mount Etna, and the world's most active volcano, Kilauea in Hawaii, erupting again.

Such earthquake swarms are not uncommon under ... Together with our Greek partners (Laboratory of Physical Geography, University of Athens), we are on site to install additional measuring ...

The epicenter was about a mile from North Hollywood. Little to no damage was expected, according to the U.S. Geological ...

Since the end of January, the majority of Santorini residents have left the island by plane and ferry, as thousands of earthquakes continue to shake the region.

Session 2: Earthquakes This session looks specifically at earthquakes ... reporting up to date hazards so this is very much welcomed. Alan Parkinson is head of Geography at King’s Ely Junior – a ...

Earthquakes regularly rattle our planet, striking somewhere in the world every hour of every day. Such events are the result of the slow-motion march of tectonic plates that build stresses in ...

This story appears in the July 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Scientists are betting on a new system to alert us to impending earthquakes: birds wearing tiny backpacks. A global ...

The 4th largest quake in hundred years with a magnitude of 9.1 quickened our rotation and shortened our day by 2.68 microsecond. It shifted the North Pole by 2.5 centimeters (1 inch) in the ...

While physical geography explores everything that occurs naturally. For example, how is the land shaped by rivers and the sea? And why do earthquakes happen? Together, physical and human geography ...