Dams in the United States may be in worse condition than previously understood. More than 16,700 dams across the country are ...

Columbia Memorial Hospital near Oregon's coastline is forging ahead with emergency plans in case of a major earthquake or ...

Unplanned urbanisation, violations of the National Building Code and the Detailed Area Plan (DAP), and rampant filling of wetlands with sand for housing projects have made Dhaka the riskiest city in ...

Landslide hazard mapping has made big strides, but the public still must rely on piecemeal mapping and incomplete data to ...

Japan is learning what life is life under a megaquake watch. NPR's Rob Schmitz talks to Richard Allen, director of the Berkeley Seismology Lab, about what it means.

The petitioner, appearing in person, informed the bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta that while Delhi was ...

The petitioner brought up concerns about a majority of the citizens living in areas that are in high risk for earthquakes, citing that nearly three quarters of the Indians reside in areas deemed as ...

The San Jacinto Fault, considered part of the San Andreas Fault system, has a 5% chance of magnitude 6.7 or larger earthquakes. The line begins at Cajun Pass and runs southeast through San Bernardino, ...

When an earthquake strikes in winter, cold temperatures and snow can slow down evacuations and raise the risk of hypothermia.

Ahmedabad: The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), govt of India, recently announced a significant revision in the seismic ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan issued a megaquake advisory Tuesday after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck off the eastern coast of ...

A powerful magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck off northern Japan, triggering a tsunami that hit Pacific coast communities and ...