Nearly 80 percent of municipalities within 30 kilometers of 15 nuclear power plants across Japan have a lower proportion of ...

After seeing thousands of homes burn to the ground in the Los Angeles wildfires, and many homes damaged here in the Houston ...

Three decades later, the need for earthquake-resistant structures along major ... 1995, around 250,000 homes were completely or partially destroyed. That same year, the government enacted a ...

A popular spot in America for tourists is also a hotspot for earthquakes with a number of projects underway to future-proof ...

When it does, it releases energy in a burst, which causes the shaking of an earthquake. Earthquakes happen most often where tectonic plates meet. Tectonic plates are pieces of crust that fit ...

A powerful 7.6 magnitude earthquake in the Caribbean Sea Saturday night, north of Honduras and southwest of the Cayman Islands, briefly triggered tsunami alerts that were later lifted. The U.S ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A Tsunami Advisory was in effect for Puerto Rico and nearby islands for part of Saturday evening after a powerful earthquake struck between Honduras and the Cayman Islands ...

MEXICO CITY -- A magnitude-7.6 earthquake shook the Caribbean Sea southwest of Cayman Islands Saturday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, and some islands and countries urged people near ...

But after another week of near-constant earthquakes, the island has taken ... and sandbags have been set up next to seaside homes. Psychologists from the Hellenic Red Cross have counseled worried ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.6 occurred on Saturday in the Caribbean Sea, according to the US Geological Survey, sparking a tsunami advisory. The tremor hit 129 miles southwest of ...