There are ways of reducing the effects of earthquakes by, for example, planning, predicting and preparing. Buildings may collapse due to the shaking of the ground. People may die if they are ...

for example, large volume of the rock mass because of the mine… and then that's when we call them induced earthquakes,' he ...

A powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu on Tuesday, causing significant damage, including the collapse of buildings in the capital ...

Residents near Stanley, Idaho, might have felt a small tremor as the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.0 ...

If things are shaking, there’s an earthquake. In reality, though, a lot of things can shake a sensitive instrument that is detecting shaking, so — for example — mechanical sensors will ...

The Great East Japan Earthquake, followed by the tsunami and the nuclear accident, turned out to be an unprecedented catastrophe. In comparison with the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake that struck ...