Mother Nature can be brutal and unforgiving - as shown by the largest earthquakes on record. Here’s how they compare in their ...

KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept 2 (Reuters) - The death toll from Afghanistan's worst earthquake in years jumped to over 1,100 on Tuesday with thousands more injured, an aid group said, as difficult terrain ...

STORY: Residents in parts of Afghanistan desperately searched for survivors, after one of the worst earthquakes to hit the country flattened entire villages overnight. Authorities said hundreds of ...

Fears of a devastating tsunami faded Wednesday for the U.S. and Japan after one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck off a sparsely populated Russian peninsula, but new alerts along South ...

DHAKA, Nov 21, (Xinhua): At least 10 people were killed and hundreds of others injured on Friday after one of the biggest ...

An 8.8-magnitude earthquake – one of the most powerful ever recorded – struck off the coast of eastern Russia late Tuesday, causing intense shaking for minutes, rattling windows and damaging ...

Percolating downwards, the extra water eventually found its way into a major fault zone that slices through the 12km-long ...

Preservationists have long fought a developer's Noe Valley project, which the city red-tagged only after the buildings were reduced to roofs and frames.

All three of the earthquakes were centered within five miles of Gilroy, according to the U.S. Geological Survey ...