People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...
The magnitude 7.9 Bonin Islands earthquake sequence in May 2015, which ruptured deep within the earth near the base of the ...
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck off the central Philippines on Thursday, damaging buildings and a road near its epicentre, ...
The world’s largest iceberg is still on the move and there are fears that it could be headed north from Antarctica towards the island of South Georgia.
Government panel reveals more than 80 per cent probability of massive earthquake along Nankai Trough, an 800km-long undersea ...
They also caused significant damage in Hawaii. Japan’s biggest earthquake hit the country on March 11, 2011. The underwater quake hit around 80 miles off the coast of Honshu, Japan’s biggest ...
"Earthquakes continue to be detected in the area and it is too early to say whether the swarm will fade away," it said. The largest earthquake registered a 5.1 magnitude, it said, while 17 other ...
The tsunami warning affected two provinces and sparked fears over the safety of the two nuclear power plants in the area.
Alaska features one of the longest subduction zones in the world and will always lead the U.S. earthquake count. Alaska didn’t win the largest U.S. quake of the year nod. Only five Alaska quakes ...
Iceland's second-largest volcano may be about to wake up after a near-decade-long slumber following a "swarm" of seismic activity this week. Approximately 130 earthquakes were recorded at ...
The earthquake swarm began in the northwestern region of Iceland's Bárðarbunga volcano at 6:00 a.m. local time Tuesday morning (Jan. 14), with the largest reaching a magnitude of 5.1 at 8:05 a.m ...