The government is producing “really bad policy” in proposed legislation on earthquake strengthening of buildings, says Shamubeel Eaqub.

Millions of people were evacuated, as minds cast back to the devastating tsunami of Boxing Day 2004 in the Indian Ocean and Japan 2011, both triggered by similarly large earthquakes. But today's ...

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Wafaa Sadek, country director for International Medical Corps in Syria, about the earthquake's aftermath and how her team of medical professionals are responding.

Seismologists explained that New England earthquakes, while uncommon and usually minor, are by no means unheard of. The last bad one we had took place on Nov. 18, 1755, a date long remembered.

For thousands of years, people have claimed that odd behavior by animals could predict an imminent earthquake, but a 2018 study questions the claim.

Nepal Earthquake: Americans Trying to Get Out Describe 'Really Bad' Situation Hundreds are trying to leave the quake-ravaged nation today.

Volunteers help remove debris of a building that collapsed at Durbar Square, after an earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal, Saturday, April 25, 2015.

Alex Diaz is just one of hundreds of Americans stuck at Kathmandu airport trying to flee the aftermath of this weekend's deadly quake in Nepal. Diaz, who hails from New York, described the ...