Most are below 3.0 magnitude, so small that they aren’t felt. But a few, like the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, are massive, capable of widespread destruction. The last significant damaging ...

YANGON: Myanmar's junta has extended a post-earthquake truce, after the expiry of a previous humanitarian ceasefire it was accused of flouting with a continued campaign of air strikes. The junta ...

An earthquake of magnitude 4.3 hit Nepal in the early hours of Friday, as reported by the National Center of Seismology (NCS). The NCS provided the details in a post on X. According to the NCS ...

Over 200 prisoners escaped in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi late on Monday after they were permitted to leave their cells following a series of earthquake tremors, local officials and ...

The Greek holiday island of Crete was rocked by a 6.1 magnitude earthquake on Thursday morning. The earthquake led to a tsunami warning being issued, with people urged to stay away from coast ...

Did you feel it yesterday? A magnitude 2.0 earthquake was reported 3 kilometers east of Plainville, Connecticut yesterday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The quake is listed as ...

An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 hit Hokkaido in Japan on Saturday afternoon, the country's Meteorological Agency said, adding that it hit at a depth of 20 km (12 miles). This picture taken on ...

SAN FRANCISCO – An earthquake shook parts of the San Francisco Bay Area early Monday morning. According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the magnitude 3.6 earthquake was reported about ...

An earthquake of magnitude 4.2 on the Richter Scale hit Pakistan at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, in the Faisalabad division, according to the National Centre of Seismology. The earthquake's epicentre was ...

From the Great Kanto earthquake in 1923 to the Noto Peninsula earthquake on New Year’s Day in 2024, a wide variety of misinformation and disinformation caused confusion in disaster-stricken areas.

CCTV footage shortly before an earthquake in Crete shows a cat appearing to 'sense' tremors just moments beforehand, running to safety as its surroundings began to shake. The video was recorded on ...

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