Earthquake scientist Lucy Jones was tapped earlier this week to lead Los Angeles in its effort to make the city safer when it comes to earthquake issues. KCRW’s Avishay Artsy caught up with Jones to ...

The damage in Caracas and La Guaira has reignited the debate over the safety standards required for buildings in earthquake-prone countries ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A magnitude 5.2 earthquake in Moldova was caught live on television as the country's president was giving an interview. Maia Sandu ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. California's earthquake warning system sent alerts to more than 1 million people before the 5.6-magnitude quake that struck in a ...

A new report studied a massive earthquake that ruptured in the southeast Asian country of Myanmar on March 28 — on a fault known for being eerily similar to California’s notorious San Andreas fault.

Today at about 11:30am local time, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula in the country's far east. Originating at a depth of roughly 20 kilometres, today's ...