The deep rumble came just before midnight. The walls of Abdullah’s home buckled, the roof collapsed and 17 members of his family were crushed in an instant. The villager – who did not want to give his ...

KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept 2 (Reuters) - The death toll from Afghanistan's worst earthquake in years jumped to over 1,100 on Tuesday with thousands more injured, an aid group said, as difficult terrain ...

Earthquakes account for some of the costliest natural disasters in history. They can literally reshape the planet. But how powerful can they get? That's a question humans have only recently been able ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (Reuters) -The death toll from Afghanistan's worst earthquake in years jumped to over 1,400 on Tuesday with thousands more injured, authorities said, as difficult terrain hindered ...

KABUL (Reuters) -One of Afghanistan's worst earthquakes killed more than 800 people and injured at least 2,800, authorities said on Monday, as helicopters ferried the wounded to hospital after they ...

An 8.8-magnitude earthquake — one of the most powerful ever recorded — struck off the coast of eastern Russia late Tuesday, causing intense shaking for minutes, rattling windows and damaging ...

CHAMANGA, Ecuador, April 20 (UNHCR) - The UN Refugee Agency has distributed tents and plastic sheeting to people made homeless by the worst earthquake to strike Ecuador in decades, which killed ...

Residents of the US’s West Coast have long feared “The Big One” – the apparently inevitable massive earthquake that will one day hit where the Pacific tectonic plate meets its North American neighbor.

For decades, researchers thought that an October 1843 earthquake on the small Greek island of Chalke caused a powerful ...