A 5.0 magnitude earthquake reported northwest of Toyah, Texas, late Friday was felt across West Texas and into New Mexico, ...

A 7.6-magnitude earthquake in the Caribbean Sea Saturday triggered tsunami warnings for Cuba and the Cayman Islands and ...

Santorini, hit by an earthquake in late January, has since been shaken by a swarm of tremors. Most of its 16,000 residents ...

An explosion at a central Taiwan department store on Feb 13 has left at least four dead and more injured, Taiwanese media ...

The Semipalatinsk Test Site, also called the Polygon, is lesser known but was used by the Soviet Union to test nuclear ...

When most of us think about active volcanoes in the U.S., Mount St. Helens, Mt. Rainier and a few others will first come to mind. However, one of the most active volcanoes in the region is about a ...

It insures against losses to property from fire, explosion, earthquake, windstorm, flood, terrorism, boiler explosion, machinery breakdown, and construction defects, as well as underwrites ...

After the terrible earthquake of 1956, its residents cast a black stone behind them, selling their properties—even for a tin ...

Many fear a newly discovered asteroid could cause major natural disasters and an explosion '500x bigger than Hiroshima' if it ...

When it does, it releases energy in a burst, which causes the shaking of an earthquake. Earthquakes happen most often where tectonic plates meet. Tectonic plates are pieces of crust that fit ...

After a pair of small earthquakes shook San Bernardino on Monday morning, the city was jolted by another earthquake just before 10 p.m., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It was the second ...