Mother Nature can be brutal and unforgiving - as shown by the largest earthquakes on record. Here’s how they compare in their ...

KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept 2 (Reuters) - The death toll from Afghanistan's worst earthquake in years jumped to over 1,100 on Tuesday with thousands more injured, an aid group said, as difficult terrain ...

Percolating downwards, the extra water eventually found its way into a major fault zone that slices through the 12km-long ...

An 8.8-magnitude earthquake – one of the most powerful ever recorded – struck off the coast of eastern Russia late Tuesday, causing intense shaking for minutes, rattling windows and damaging ...

STORY: Residents in parts of Afghanistan desperately searched for survivors, after one of the worst earthquakes to hit the country flattened entire villages overnight. Authorities said hundreds of ...

Yesterday, an astonishing 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Russia, near the Kamchatka Peninsula. That is HUGE! In fact, it is the strongest earthquake to happen on Earth since 2011! In ...

Fears of a devastating tsunami faded Wednesday for the U.S. and Japan after one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck off a sparsely populated Russian peninsula, but new alerts along South ...

Preservationists have long fought a developer's Noe Valley project, which the city red-tagged only after the buildings were reduced to roofs and frames.

KABUL, Afghanistan (Reuters) -The death toll from Afghanistan's worst earthquake in years jumped to over 1,400 on Tuesday with thousands more injured, authorities said, as difficult terrain hindered ...