Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

When plates come together at convergent boundaries ... keep them from collapsing during earthquakes. Skyscrapers in quake-prone places, like Chile and Japan, are built to absorb energy.

Government panel reveals more than 80 per cent probability of massive earthquake along Nankai Trough, an 800km-long undersea trench near Japan’s Pacific coast ...

The Greek government has declared a state of emergency on Santorini Island as the earthquake that began at the end of last ...

Most volcanoes and earthquakes occur along these plate boundaries, where the stress and ... but more can be learnt from global best practices. Japan, for instance, has developed a robust disaster ...

Two major tsunami that swamped the east coast have been labelled a "missed opportunities", so what do we need to change to be prepared?

The probability of a “megaquake” happening in Japan within the next 30 years has risen to over 80 per cent, the government’s earthquake investigation panel found. A megaquake is defined as ...

The Aegean Sea is no stranger to earthquakes. It is laced with faults related to the slow collision between the African and ...