According to most accounts, this fateful date saw more human lives extinguished than any other day in history, with the vast ...

BC's recent earthquake serves as a reminder of the history of this seismically active region, which has seen many damaging ...

At the top of the clouds ... These two had magnitudes of 7.0 or more and are among the deadliest in history — only outdone by ...

According to a list compiled by 24/7 Wall St., the worst natural disaster to ever occur in California was The San Francisco ...

The Wenchuan earthquake of 2008 was one of the deadliest recorded in China ... Sichuan endured one of its most serious power crises in August amid unprecedented heatwaves and drought, with ...

Deadly earthquakes strike villages in western Afghanistan In our news wrap Saturday, two 6.3 magnitude earthquakes in western Afghanistan killed more than 300 people according to a UN estimate and ...

Most of the fatalities are in mountainous ... The UAE began to organize support for Morocco in the wake of a deadly earthquake that occurred near Marrakesh on Friday night. Mohammed bin Zayed ...

Most earthquakes occur at fault zones ... front of a stranded ship in Indonesia's Central Sulawesi province after a deadly magnitude 7.5 earthquake and tsunami struck the area on September ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered thousands of rescue crew to the region, among the poorest and most diverse in China. The earthquake is the country's deadliest since 2014, when more than ...

There have been no destructive earthquakes underneath California ... That scenario would result in the deadliest quake in modern Southern California history, with more than 1,000 of those ...

A year after a deadly earthquake struck Morocco's High Atlas mountains, reconstruction efforts are slowly moving forward IMI N'TALA, Morocco -- The rescue crews and bystanders are long gone but ...