Authorities on the eastern Greek island of Lesbos ordered schools in part of the island to close on Wednesday so they can be inspected for potential structural damage after an overnight earthquake ...

The photo was in fact taken in Turkey's Hatay province after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck in February 2023. "Very Strong earthquake M 7.1 China Nepal. At least 53 people are dead after a 7.1 ...

A lurch in the Earth’s tectonic plates can wreak havoc at any time – as we’ve just seen in Vanuatu. How do scientists measure ...

As seismologists review available data, they often revise the earthquake's reported magnitude and update shake-severity maps. The location of Friday’s earthquake recalled one of the biggest ...

Hundreds of millions of Americans are at risk from damaging earthquakes, with a new map revealing that almost 75% of the ...

Additional information collected about the earthquake may also prompt U.S.G.S. scientists to update the shake-severity map. An aftershock is usually a smaller earthquake that follows a larger one ...

A massive earthquake rocked southeastern Turkey and northwestern Syria in February 2024 causing more than 50,000 deaths and thousands injured. The year 2024 which comes to an end within a few ...

A series of powerful earthquakes struck southern Turkey and northwestern Syria in 2023, killing more than 55,000 people. An estimated 37,066 buildings collapsed and over 200,000 buildings were ...

A court in Turkey has sentenced the owner and architect of a hotel which collapsed in an earthquake in 2023, killing 72 people, to jail. The owner of the Isias Grand, Ahmet Bozkurt, and architect ...

(Relevance: Earthquakes are significant geophysical phenomena as they are included in the UPSC CSE syllabus. They encompass various topics such as disaster management and geography, including plate ...

Two of Japan's nuclear power plants were rattled on Monday when a magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck southwest Japan, prompting a tsunami advisory for parts of the region. This map shows the ...