A woman who was closer to the epicenter later wrote: … we were visited by a violent shock of an earthquake, accompanied by a very awful noise resembling loud but distant thunder… followed in a few ...

As history has proven, earthquakes are one of the most destructive natural disasters. Engineers and scientists study them to determine how, where and why they happen to reduce the damage they can ...

On August 18, 2025, a magnitude 4.5 earthquake struck near Galela, North Halmahera Regency in North Maluku, Indonesia, at 12:30 AM local time. Earthquakes, particularly those of moderate magnitude, ...

Did you feel it? An earthquake with a magnitude of 2.7 was reported in northern New Jersey, according to preliminary ...

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 ...

On a seemingly ordinary day, the Drake Passage—a turbulent body of water between South America and Antarctica—was rocked by a 7.5 magnitude earthquake, prompting a temporary tsunami alert from the ...

Earth's tectonic plates are in constant motion and, because the plates are not all moving in the same direction, the boundaries where they meet are often violent places. Boundaries where two ...

The National Society for Earthquake Technology, Nepal (NSET) creates and distributes earthquake education materials every year as part of its Earthquake Safety Day Campaign on 15 January every year, ...

With support from the World Bank’s Realizing Education’s Promise Project, Indonesia's Ministry of Religious Affairs (MoRA) rehabilitated 64 madrasahs in the district and returned students to the ...

How this ‘earthquake nut’ prompted one Utah school district to make all of its buildings safer Father of five daughters worried about them attending classes in the old East High building.