The earthquake was powerful enough to change the course of the Mississippi River and create temporary waterfalls in it. About 15 miles south of the town of New Madrid, upheaval of the land caused ...

More than 120 people have been killed after a powerful earthquake struck ... according to the China Earthquake Networks Center. Tibet is one of the most restricted and politically sensitive ...

the second most powerful figure in Tibetan Buddhism after the Dalai Lama. According to Xinhua, the earthquake damaged more than 1,000 homes, including some that were “reduced to rubble.” ...

A 15th-century monastery in Tibet is still intact after a deadly 6.8 magnitude earthquake shook the northern foothills of Mount Everest. The magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit near Shigatse, one of Tibet's ...

In the wake of the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004, caused by the third most powerful earthquake ever recorded, countless images of piled up dead bodies, partially rotted from their time floating in ...

A strong earthquake struck southwestern Japan, the U.S. Geological Survey said, prompting authorities to issue a tsunami ...

A powerful earthquake has struck a remote region of ... Tuesday’s quake was the most powerful recorded within a 200km (124-mile) radius in the last five years, the CENC added.

It was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Asia, the most powerful of the 21st century and the third-most powerful recorded since modern seismography began in 1900. The tsunami — not ...

On the West Coast, places like California are right on the edge of the plate, and when plates bump against each other, that's when the most powerful earthquakes occur. But Virginia did experience ...

Days after devastating earthquake killed over 120 people in Tibet, another earthquake of magnitude 5.2 jolted the autonomous ...

Tibet hit by two powerful aftershocks ... China and India in one of the world's most remote, quake-prone regions, experts say. Tibet quake highlights earthquake risk for dams on roof of the ...