Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

This can give people a few seconds of warning to "drop ... structure that soften the impact of earthquake waves. Some of these dampers are really big and impressive. Taipei 101, a 101-story ...

DPR supports BMKG in maintaining the budget for weather, earthquake, and tsunami early warning systems amidst budget efficiency policies.

California was rocked by a third earthquake in less than six hours, this one a moderately weak 2.7-magnitude seismic event. ...

Flights are continuing to go in and out of Santorini airport despite a state of emergency being declared on the Greek island.

On March 11, 2011, a magnitude-9.0 earthquake sent a tsunami hurtling towards Japan's east coast, killing 20,000 people, wiping out 120,000 buildings and sparking a partial meltdown at the Fukushima ...

There's been news lately about the earthquake warning given to California of the "big one" that may hit soon. The "big one" has been speculated on for a while, so much so that it inspired a big budget ...

Volcano scientists from around the world will gather from Feb. 9-14 in Hilo for the American Geophysical Union Chapman Conference on Caldera-forming Eruptions at Basaltic Volcanoes: Insights and ...

A series of small earthquakes shook the San Francisco Bay Area on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey.

A 7.6-magnitude earthquake in the Caribbean Sea Saturday triggered tsunami warnings for Cuba and the Cayman Islands and ...