Nashik is classified in Seismic Zone III, indicating a moderate seismic hazard. A Maharashtra Fire and Emergency Services assessment has also highlighted earthquake vulnerability in Nashik, including ...

A cluster of small tremors has renewed attention on the Hayward Fault beneath the San Francisco Bay Area. The immediate shaking was minor, but the fault’s path through dense communities and its ...

In a summer of wildfires severe enough to trigger Spain’s first-ever national emergency for a forest fire, a historic stone structure called the Nevera de Castro stands in a landscape burned bare in ...

Puerto Vallarta tower rules set conflicting soil-test thresholds as new permits rise and a city risk-atlas contract ends without an award.

ALAMEDA COUNTY, CA - A 3.8 magnitude quake jolted near San Leandro on Thursday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

As Colombia reels from one of the strongest earthquakes in its recorded history that killed at least 250, just weeks after more than 6,000 deaths in twin quakes in ...

Following a series of destructive earthquakes in Colombia and Venezuela, the scientific community investigates the reasons behind the devastation. Both countries, situated on active tectonic ...

A dangerous cocktail of tectonic positioning, loose earth and shoddy construction contributed to the unprecedented damage caused by Venezuela's twin earthquakes, experts say.

On July 7, the onetime Pfizer headquarters in midtown began to sag, and then it began to crumble, with bricks raining down from the 21st and 22nd floors onto 43rd Street between Second and Third ...

Kefalonia suffered some of the worst destruction. Argostoli and Lixouri were devastated, while Zakynthos also suffered enormous damage. Public Domain On August 12, 1953, one of the most destructive ...

At least 169 people are dead and a state of emergency has been declared after Colombia was hit by one of its largest earthquakes in years. The death toll is likely to rise, with more feared trapped ...