Tibet Quake Highlights Earthquake Risk for Dams on Roof of the World By Colleen Howe BEIJING (Reuters) -Tibet's earthquake of magnitude 6.8 that killed 126 and damaged four water reservoirs this ...

Amid the increasing impacts of climate change, Senator Loren Legarda on Thursday said she filed Senate Bill (SB) 2927, or the ...

Hundreds of millions of Americans are at risk from damaging earthquakes, with a new map revealing that almost 75% of the ...

Thousands of people marked on Friday the 30th anniversary of an earthquake that claimed more than 6,400 lives and levelled much of the Japanese city of Kobe. The 7.2-magnitude quake on January 17 ...

Gujarat is a high earthquake-risk area. It suffered nine major earthquakes in the past 200 years, according to the data of the Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority (GSDMA), PTI reported.

According to the Earthquake Disaster Risk Index, Dhaka tops the list of the 20 most vulnerable cities globally. The occurrence of two recent earthquakes within a week has heightened concerns about ...

MANILA, Philippines — The series of earthquakes that rocked northwestern Luzon last month highlighted “the region’s risk to geologic hazards,” with the Philippine Institute of Volcanology ...

No damage was reported after an 4.1 magnitude earthquake rumbled through western Quebec on the morning of Dec. 29. According to Earthquakes Canada, the quake’s epicentre was 75 kilometres ...

EEW does not remove the need for other earthquake risk reduction, preparedness, and response measures, such as constructing to building code requirements,” the NRC says. Preventative measures ...

Tibet quake highlights earthquake risk for dams on roof of the world China has almost doubled its tally of injured in Tibet's deadly earthquake as rescuers widened a search on Friday for survivors ...

Building more dams in the Himalayas is not sustainable, said C P Rajendran, a geologist at India’s National Institute of Advanced Studies, citing ecological concerns and the earthquake risk from the ...