Next time an earthquake strikes, the kids at Bubbles Early Childhood Centre in New Plymouth know there is only one thing to do - stop, drop and cover your mop. In the wake of Seddon's 6.5 ...

Also, the earthquake happened at a more convenient time, 8 am, when people were out of bed and able to react, but before children had gone to school.

Significant earthquakes have happened in the last 12 months in Haiti, Chile and New Zealand. Before that China and Pakistan were countries that experienced major quakes and terrible death tolls.

The earthquake in Ya'an in western Sichuan province on April 20 with a magnitude of 7 was the second major seismic event to occur in China - the other being the Yushu quake in Qinghai province in ...

An article on Science News for Kids looks at earthquake testing conducted at UB and the impact it had on the wooden townhouse and its contents constructed specifically for the experiment. The article ...

The 5.4 magnitude earthquake that struck near Los Angeles yesterday just before noon was felt as far east as Las Vegas and as far south as San Diego. Since the quake, whose epicenter was about 28 ...

They understand that earthquakes are a fact of life in Los Angeles, Hronsky said. “We live in California, and our kids are pretty in tune to this stuff.

The devastating earthquake that flattened many communities in the Noto Peninsula on Jan. 1 has highlighted many challenges for nuclear disaster prevention as well.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (September 8, 2021) — The Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) is providing free resources to help STEM educators teach about recent earthquake events, such as the ...

The report highlights still greater uncertainty over the earthquake resistance of older dams. With the sophistication of dam design and construction advancing rapidly in recent decades, those ...