The South China Sea Trough is a highly active seismic zone located off the coast of western Japan. A major earthquake in this region could trigger catastrophic tsunamis, with Kuroshio Town being one ...

Explore Istanbul's urgent need for earthquake-proof architecture as experts warn of potential seismic events along the North ...

More than a thousand people in Istanbul turned to mosques, schools and other temporary shelters on Thursday after a strong ...

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Lake sediment cores in Guatemala reveal directional ground shaking from the 1976 earthquake, offering rare insight into ...

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It implores folks in the earthquake zone to "drop cover," which immediately prompts him to say, "oh s--t" as well. He, too, appears to get out of his work chair. As the earthquake continues to ...

Manjil (20 June 1990): M7.3 earthquake near Rasht and Rudbar killed some 16,000, collapsing infrastructure and underscoring vulnerability in the Alborz-Caspian transition zone. Ardabil (28 Feb 1997): ...

Tokyo, Apr 18 (UNI) An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5 struck Japan's Nagano Prefecture on Friday night, with no tsunami threat, according to the country's weather agency. The temblor ...

it's not just a single strand of a fault but quite often a branching network of fault strands involved in an earthquake, making the fault zone hundreds of meters wide. "So that suggests that ...

On March 28, a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Southeast Asia ... The Economist notes that, although the basis for a global time zone system was agreed upon during the International Meridian ...