A strong, 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck in the North Pacific Ocean on Friday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 11:44 a.m. Japan time about 71 miles northeast ...

Adelaide sits on the most active seismic zone in Australia and has more than its fair share of tremors below magnitude-4, but ...

A 6.9 magnitude earthquake shook northeastern Japan and caused small tsunami waves but no apparent damage Friday, days after ...

Japan is learning what life is life under a megaquake watch. NPR's Rob Schmitz talks to Richard Allen, director of the Berkeley Seismology Lab, about what it means.

Staff at the main hospital in Vanuatu's capital Port Vila have returned to work following a spat with the Public Service Commission (PSC).

In the age of dinosaurs — before whales, great whites or the bus-sized megalodon — a monstrous shark prowled the waters off ...

The world's greatest earthquake belt, the circum-Pacific seismic belt, is found along the rim of the Pacific Ocean, where about 81 percent of our planet's largest earthquakes occur. It has earned the ...

Japan earthquake live: Tsunami advisory issued after new 6.7-magnitude tremor - Details on damage and injuries from the new ...

A 6.7 magnitude earthquake occurred Friday afternoon local time off the northern coast of Japan, the Japan Meteorological ...

If it were to melt completely, the vast West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) holds enough ice to raise the global sea levels by 4 ...

Photo courtesy of AFP When calamity strikes, the immediate imperative is saving lives, restoring essential services and ...

A new era for rugby in New Zealand and globally will begin next July, but for the All Blacks, one big, all-too-familiar ...