The damage in Caracas and La Guaira has reignited the debate over the safety standards required for buildings in earthquake-prone countries ...

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

Volcano Watch” is a weekly column and volcano/earthquake activity update written by U.S. Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano ...

Venezuela is left picking up the pieces after two powerful earthquakes, 7.2 and 7.5 in magnitude, hit the country on Wednesday, killing over 1,400 people and causing damage worth millions. It was a ...

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 ...

Earthquakes account for some of the costliest natural disasters in history. They can literally reshape the planet. But how powerful can they get? That's a question humans have only recently been able ...

Scientists at Stanford have unveiled the first-ever global map of rare earthquakes that rumble deep within Earth’s mantle rather than its crust. Long debated and notoriously difficult to confirm, ...

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

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 ...

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