Turkey has begun a new phase in restorations of the nearly 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, focusing on preserving ...

Turkey has begun a new phase in sweeping restorations of the nearly 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, focusing on ...

focusing on preserving the monument's historic domes from the threat of earthquakes. Officials say the project will include reinforcing Hagia Sophia's main dome and half domes, replacing the worn ...

In March 2011, the deadly tsunami triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake tore off half the plaque from the monument, reducing its inscribed message to just a jumble of disjointed words.

That spring, as work was nearing completion on the Bird’s Nest, which he designed in collaboration with the Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron, a devastating 7.9 magnitude earthquake shook Sichuan ...

Natural disaster monuments refer to stone structures and monuments recording the details of past natural disasters, such as earthquakes and flood disasters, as well as the lessons learned from them.

An earthquake in central Myanmar just unearthed an ancient structure that may be part of a royal “water palace,” experts say.

A moderately strong, 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck in Southern California on Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 10:08 a.m. Pacific time about 2 ...

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.2 hit Southern California on Monday morning. Experts with the Seismological Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology said the quake was ...