Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Could the "big one" be about to hit? In New Zealand, Chile, parts of the US and other earthquake-prone regions, many fear that ...

Earthquakes are also not unknown. Winters holds its Earthquake Festival as a reminder each August, for example.

April is Earthquake Preparedness Month, and with the trembles of an earthquake felt from over 150 miles away Monday night, ...

(FOX40.COM) — Governor Gavin Newsom is responding to reduce federal aid after Californians received a false earthquake alert on Dec. 4, arguing that the state and the nation are less prepared for ...

While experts have long advocated learning from the past to reduce disaster-related deaths, few municipalities are taking ...

Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of three stories following a Standard-Examiner editorial board interview with Ogden Fire Chief Mike Slater on a broad range of topics including recent ...

It is vital to share the lessons learned from major earthquakes and put them to use in mitigating future disasters.This year ...

The San Francisco Fire Department held a live emergency firefighting water system demonstration on Tuesday morning in ...

Natural disasters, such as earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic activity, are a product of our planet’s geophysical forces and can have devastating effects on communities and ecosystems. Detecting such ...

Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and Princess Aiko visited Futaba in Fukushima Prefecture on April 6 to mark 15 years since ...