The Maltese islands are not known for devastating earthquakes, but that doesn’t mean they are immune to them. Over the years, smaller tremors have occasionally been felt, and historical records ...

Travellers to a popular European holiday destination have been issued a warning over extreme weather. The Foreign, ...

In the U.S., this preparation hinges in large part on the expertise of scientists and engineers in federal agencies who develop earthquake hazard models and contribute to the creation of building ...

Jonathan P. Stewart has received funding from NSF and USGS. He is the chair of the Steering Committee for the National Seismic Hazard Model, a member of the National Institute of Building Sciences ...

Many popular vacation destinations, like California, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Thailand and the Caribbean are in active quake ...

A strong, 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck in the Solomon Sea on Saturday, according to the United States Geological Survey. A “tsunami threat” was issued for some parts of the coast of Papua ...

During the devastating earthquake that struck Myanmar and Thailand this weekend, horrified viewers around the world watched a 30-story Bangkok high-rise collapse in a scene reminiscent of the New ...

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Maya Mehrara is a News Reporter at Newsweek based in London, U.K.. Her focus is reporting on international news. She has covered Ukraine, Russia, immigration issues, and the revolution in Iran.

The increased seismic activity, unprecedented even in a country as quake-prone as Greece, had shut schools, halt construction and dispatch rescuers to Santorini Santorini’s shaky tourism ...