A new analysis of earthquake rupture directivity provides essential insights for seismic hazard and risk assessments in urban ...

Seismologists describe potential damage forecasts from ground shaking scenarios for moderate earthquakes in three regions of the Mexico City basin.

Jakarta is one of the largest cities in the world and one of the most earthquake-prone. It is located within the Pacific Ring ...

New research has revealed what the most and least dangerous night-time LGAs are in NSW - in terms of crime and its victims. Astor Legal crunched the numbers on the NSW Bureau of Crime and ...

A beautiful European city with routes from the Roman era and sitting atop a supervolcanic caldera is “the most dangerous place ... region has seen a surge in earthquakes, including a 4.4 ...

On that day, coastal Northern California was struck by the magnitude 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake. Soft-story structures are composed of a ground-floor garage and topped by one or more floors of ...

The land-based setting makes the Himalayan earthquake extremely dangerous, with urban infrastructure being more vulnerable to violent shaking in the event of a mega-quake.

Quakes below 2.5 magnitude are seldom felt by most people. Earthquakes’ sudden, rapid shaking can cause fires, tsunamis, landslides or avalanches. They can happen anywhere, but they’re most ...

According to the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR), earthquakes happen in Washington every day, but most are too small to be felt. The state has the second highest risk in the ...

Several earthquakes rocked near the Texas-New Mexico border on Tuesday morning, the latest in a slew of quakes to hit the region. A 4.6 magnitude earthquake happened at 5:18 a.m. MT, about 36 ...

This is where the truly big earthquakes occur. The MHT’s three shallower branches are close to most north Indian cities, including Delhi. Most monster earthquakes of between moment magnitude (Mw ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 3.0 shook residents near San Bernardino County on Monday night, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. USGS reported the quake hit about 9.9 miles north ...