LOCAL government units (LGUs) are ultimately responsible for ensuring housing safety in urban areas, even with the availability of detailed geohazard maps and risk assessments, according to the ...

Seismologists recorded two earthquakes in Romania on Sunday, November 24, according to the website of Romania's National ...

SRI LANKA, — This December marks the 20th anniversary of the Boxing Day tsunami, one of the deadliest natural disasters in ...

A 2.6 magnitude earthquake struck around 8:30 p.m. yesterday (24th) in 128 kilometers west of Jeju City.The epicenter was ...

Geophysicist Barry Hirshorn—now with Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego—was on ...

Now, a seismologist who was on duty at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii when the disaster struck has revealed to Newsweek the inside story of how events played out that fateful day, as his ...

A magnitude 4 earthquake struck a town in Surigao del Sur on Sunday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology ...

A magnitude 4.1 earthquake struck Nueva Era town in Ilocos Norte on Saturday evening, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) reported. In its earthquake bulletin, Phivolcs ...

Amid Southern California's most seismically active year in decades, some cities have yet to require retrofits of many ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 3.8 struck Malibu Friday afternoon, and was likely felt as far away as Long Beach. Centered ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 3.8 struck Southern California Friday, which was felt by residents across the greater Los ...

A preliminary 3.5-magnitude earthquake struck about 4.4 miles north of Malibu in Los Angeles County at about 2:15 p.m. Friday ...