A phenomenon called liquefaction, which causes the ground to slump like quicksand, led to significant damage after the Myanmar earthquake. The risk of aftershock remains high.

The head of Myanmar’s military government, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, told a forum for relief donations in Naypyitaw that 2 ...

Three major earthquake scenarios identified, including potential magnitude 9 tremors from the Andaman subduction zone, posing ...

Trench off Hokkaido contains energy that could trigger a 9.0 earthquake According to researchers from Japan's Tohoku and Hokkaido universities and the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and ...

A series of four earthquakes — the strongest of which was a magnitude 3.4 — struck off the Los Angeles County coast over the ...

Myanmar continues to be hit by a string of aftershocks, the latest being a 5.1-magnitude earthquake that struck on Sunday morning. This follows a 7.7-magnitude quake that hit on Friday leaving at ...

Moving to fulfill a campaign promise, President Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order Thursday calling for the shutdown of the Education Department, an agency Republicans have talked ...

DUBLIN, Calif. (KGO) -- From Napa to Santa Cruz, many Bay Area residents say they felt the big jolt of a 3.9 earthquake on the Calaveras fault in the East Bay. It struck at 7:46 p.m. Monday night ...

The coaches of the four teams playing for the CONCACAF Nations League title this week think soccer should remain separate from the geopolitical events currently roiling relations among their nations.

The Sigma Project, a Department of Science and Technology Grants-in-Aid initiative under the Accelerated Earthquake Multihazards Mapping and Risk Assessment Program (ACER), aims to identify the ...