Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An unassuming, brownish stone may be one of the most precious objects on Earth. The rare rock, called Teghaza 001, is a piece of ...

The 2010 Haiti earthquake is estimated to have killed more than 300,000 at a cost equivalent to 120 percent of the prior year's GDP. Colombia began designing earthquake-resistant construction in the ...

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Latin America sits across some of the world's most active tectonic boundaries. Here's why earthquakes are frequent and when they become deadly disasters.

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A 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck Colombia. The tremor occurred at 7:34 local time, at a depth of 96 kilometers, with its epicenter in San José del Palmar, in the Colombian state of Chocó.

A powerful magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck Colombia Monday morning, with shaking reported across a wide area of the country and the surrounding region. The earthquake struck ...

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NASA’s Curiosity rover has recently been traveling up a Martian valley nicknamed “Valle Grande”, and has come across some ...

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