At 10:47 AM on February 3, 1931, the earth shook violently beneath Napier, New Zealand. Two and a half minutes later, most of the town lay in ruins, consumed first by earthquake and then by fire.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jeanne Allen is founder and CEO of the Center for Education Reform. A political earthquake is shaking Washington, and this time it ...

Happy Birthday to the Humboldt Earthquake Education Center (HEEC). The center owes its existence to the California Earthquake Education Act of 1984 when the California Legislature designated the ...

Today at about 11:30am local time, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula in the country's far east. Originating at a depth of roughly 20 kilometres, today's ...

KUNA — Earthquakes may feel like a remarkable and jarring event, but for Idaho, a state that ranks among the highest in the nation for earthquake risk, they are hardly a rare occurrence. In a ...

Accra, Sept. 14, GNA – Dr A. Ofori Quaah, a Life Member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (USA), has called for educating citizens on earthquake preparedness, warning that geological ...

Scientists have confirmed that a mysterious Utah earthquake first detected in 1979 really did occur nearly 90 kilometers underground—far deeper than anyone thought earthquakes could happen beneath a ...

The first earthquake struck while the town was still asleep. Around 2 a.m. on December 16, 1811, residents of New Madrid—a small frontier settlement of 400 people in what is now southeastern ...