On the freezing evening of December 16, 1920, in the rural highlands of northwest China, thousands of families were settling in for the night. In the loess caves and mud-brick homes of Gansu Province, ...

When the ground under Seattle finally gives way, the disaster will not unfold as a single cinematic moment but as a chain ...

The 2024 earthquake caused widespread destruction across Vanuatu, damaging schools, health facilities, airstrips and key road ...

On December 11, 2025, Ventura County was shaken by a series of small earthquakes, drawing attention to the geological dynamics of the region. This article delves into the recent seismic events in ...

Real-world examples of past seismic events in Portugal include the devastating 1755 Lisbon earthquake, which had a magnitude estimated between 8.5 and 9.0, resulting in significant loss of life and ...

In this essay by Edgar Calabia Samar, he shows how Eka Kurniawan’s 'Beauty Is a Wound' teaches us to dream at multiple scales ...

A series of small earthquakes struck in Ventura County n December 12, 2025, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

Aftershocks have been recorded for both earthquakes. On Dec. 8, Japanese authorities warned an even more powerful earthquake ...

Japan's tsunami sirens highlight Canada's own Cascadia risk – and OSFI's warning that earthquake 'never' events demand real ...

“Losing nine seismic monitoring stations can provide a really big geographic gap, and then it may take minutes for other ...

In the latest report prepared by a Japanese government earthquake task force, it was estimated that up to 298,000 people ...

Dozens of people from Valdez to Whitehorse to Southeast Alaska reported to the United States Geological Survey that they’d ...