On Wednesday evening, Venezuela was hit with its largest tremors in more than a century — toppling buildings and claiming more than 100 lives. The event, according to the US Geological Survey, was a ...

Two powerful earthquakes that struck the northern coast of Venezuela and capital Caracas on Wednesday claimed at least 188 ...

Two earthquakes struck off the Oregon coast on Tuesday, rattling communities along the Pacific Northwest shoreline. The first temblor registered a magnitude of 5.4 and occurred about 100 miles west of ...

Venezuela is left picking up the pieces after two powerful earthquakes, 7.2 and 7.5 in magnitude, hit the country on ...

Atorod Azizinamini, professor in the department of civil engineering, shares his insight on the earthquake and the importance ...

Flat basins are favoured places to build cities. But seismic waves can get trapped in these basins, putting cities at risk ...

When and where the next large earthquake will strike remains one of the most difficult questions in geoscience. Researchers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two earthquakes of a 7.0 or greater magnitude have struck within days of each other in Alaska and Japan, prompting worries another ...

Earthquakes in the American state of Utah, the Soultz-sous-Forêts region of France or in the Dutch province of Groningen should not be able to occur even if the subsurface has been exploited for ...

MIT scientists have unraveled the hidden energy balance of earthquakes by recreating them in the lab. Their findings show that while only a sliver of energy goes into the shaking we feel on the ...