On Tuesday morning, a county in Tibet experienced one of its strongest earthquakes in years. According to official figures, at least 126 people were killed and 188 others injured, and rescue efforts ...

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 ...

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 ...

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