A 7.6-magnitude quake hits North Sulawesi, killing one in Manado and triggering tsunami alerts across Indonesia and nearby countries.

A fresh Bay Area earthquake has put San Francisco back on edge, but the city has lived through something far worse. In 1906, a massive quake struck just before dawn, tearing apart buildings, rupturing gas and water lines,

The powerful earthquake that struck the Noto Peninsula without warning on New Year’s Day shed light on the difficulty of evacuating residents around a nuclear power plant to safety.

A strong preliminary magnitude 7.3 earthquake has struck near Vanuatu in the South Pacific Ocean. The United States Geological Survey said the quake was at a depth of about 70 miles.

The most important fact about the San Andreas Fault is also the least satisfying one: scientists can measure rising risk, but they still cannot name the day a giant earthquake will begin. That gap between knowledge and certainty is why researchers focus on warning patterns instead of predictions.

Public utility services were today slowly being restored in Luganville, according to a provincial disaster officer, Kensly Shem, who said no deaths or serious injuries had been reported yet, and that damage assessments were ongoing.