Tibet is a seismically active zone that logged more than 100 earthquakes of magnitude of at least 3.0 last year.

This volcanic activity is due to Indonesia's location along the Pacific Ring of Fire, where several tectonic plates, ...

This complexity derives from the fact that Southeast Asia is situated at the junction of four major tectonic plates (Eurasian, Indian–Australian, Pacific, and Philippine Sea) with a few smaller ...

While it remains the strongest earthquake recorded in Japan's history and the third-largest globally since 1900, we still don't know what really caused it. Listen to Story The climate models suggest ...

STORY: A magnitude 6.8 earthquake rocked the northern foothills of the Himalayas near one of Tibet's holiest cities on ...

The leaders of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) convened in St. Petersburg on Thursday for their 10th meeting, focusing on prospects for economic development. Russian President Vladimir Putin ...

The insight is not new -- Alfred Crosby, the late expert on environmental history, wrote in the 1970s about migration of crops and animals from the American New World to the Eurasian Old World.

A 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck Tibet in southwestern China on Tuesday morning, killing 126 people and destroying many ...

Geophysicists at ETH Zurich are using models of the lower mantle to identify areas where earthquake waves behave differently ...

Rescue workers waded through rubble strewn across the ruins in the aftermath of the earthquake, footage showed, while some ...

The epicentre was around 80 km north of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain and a popular destination for climbers and trekkers.