The vast majority of earthquakes strike inside the Ring of Fire, a string of volcanoes and tectonic activity that wraps ...

The Chilean quake was a thrust earthquake, which occurs when a large section of the Earth's surface, in this case, the Nasca tectonic plate, dives beneath an adjacent plate. The fifth largest ...

Alex de Steiguer was about to send an email from a house on Star Island, 7 miles off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire, when she heard what she thought was a big plane flying over. Outside, a flock ...

Marking a break from established policy, the Chilean government is considering ... the money from which would be used to aid in earthquake reconstruction. The current 5% royalty tax began in ...

Crockett, who died in a 2016 earthquake in Ecuador at the age of ... the archbishop of Santiago de Chile, also attended. In Derry, approximately 500 people gathered at a movie theater to watch ...

Locations range from Russia’s remote Kamchatka Peninsula to southern Chile. Almost all the places ... volcanoes this week because of an earthquake in Ethiopia two weeks ago.

Ever since Crockett's tragic death during the 2016 earthquake in Ecuador ... of Derry Donal McKeown and the Archbishop of Santiago de Chile, Cardinal Fernando Chomalí Garib.

The 2010 Mw 8.8 Maule earthquake occurred offshore central Chile and ruptured ∼500 km along the megathrust fault resulting from the oceanic Nazca plate subducting beneath the continental South ...

THE BEATIFICATION cause of Sister Clare Crockett, an inspirational young Irish religious sister who died in 2016, formally opened on Sunday 12 January with a ceremony at the Cathedral of Alcalá de ...