This photo provided by Indonesia's National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) shows rescuers collecting useable items from damaged houses after an earthquake struck Kertasari village in Bandung ...

Now, a new study published today in Nature Geoscience has come up with a convincing, and surprising, answer: electricity, and earthquakes—lots of them. Those nuggets owe their existence to the ...

The region shook by the earthquake is full of impoverished agricultural villages like Imi N’tala accessible only via bumpy, ...

Thanks to the effective implementation of a national early warning system, over 129,000 residents received timely alerts before a magnitude 4.7 earthquake in Feidong county in Hefei, capital city ...

Solid gold bars stacked in bank vaults, layers of plating on this summer’s Olympic medals or even your own pieces of golden jewelry could owe their existence to earthquakes. The stress and ...

There are a number of ways to measure the magnitude of an earthquake. Most scales are based on the amplitude of seismic waves recorded on seismometers. These scales account for the distance between ...

A year after a deadly earthquake struck Morocco's High Atlas mountains, reconstruction efforts are slowly moving forward.

An earthquake rattled southern Portugal Monday morning, according to the United States Geological Survey. The earthquake, which registered a magnitude of 5.4, was recorded at 5:11 a.m. local time ...

LOS ANGELES - The Good Day LA cameras were rolling when an earthquake struck Southern California on Thursday. RELATED COVERAGE: Earthquake centered in Malibu rattles Southern California ...

Texans were rocked by a "notable" 5.1 magnitude earthquake—one of the strongest in the state's history—on Monday evening, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reported. The quake struck in Martin ...

It has been a generation since Los Angeles had a major earthquake disaster. Even in an active seismic year, many residents say they refuse to become alarmist. By Corina Knoll and Jill Cowan ...