A long-feared monster earthquake off the coast of California, Oregon and Washington could cause some areas to sink by more ...

Earthquakes are part of nature but they do not have to be disasters. DW looks at some countries that are showing how ...

Earthquakes are part of nature but they do not have to be disasters. DW looks at some countries that are showing how ...

On March 27, 1964, the United States faced its most powerful earthquake since records began. Known as the Good Friday earthquake, it affected almost all of Alaska and caused the earth to shake for ...

With a magnitude of 9.5, this is the strongest earthquake ever recorded. It caused massive destruction and triggered a powerful tsunami. A 9.1–9.3 magnitude earthquake struck on December 26, 2004. It ...

A flurry of seismic activity that caused 160 quakes in just two hours at the Laguna del Maule volcanic field in central Chile has put authorities on alert. 160 quakes occurred in the area during a ...

An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 struck off the coast of south-central Chile on Sunday ... west-northwest of Valdivia in the Pacific Ocean.

As Burma, also known as Myanmar, struggles in the aftermath of a catastrophic earthquake, Reverend Franklin Graham, president of Samaritan’s Purse, praised the swift cooperation of the Burmese ...

The death toll from a massive earthquake in Myanmar has climbed to 3,471, as search and rescue teams continue to find more bodies, state media reported Sunday. The magnitude 7.7 quake that struck ...

By Verena Hölzl Seven days after an earthquake devastated Turkey in 2023, French volunteers used a suitcase-size radar to locate a survivor under the rubble. It was one of many lives the device ...

Heavy rains have lashed parts of earthquake-hit Myanmar, complicating relief efforts and raising the risk of disease as the death toll from the powerful quakes that struck the country on March 28 ...

A 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of New Britain Island in Papua New Guinea early this morning, leading to a tsunami warning for the region, according to the US Geological Survey.