In the wake of the 6.4-magnitude earthquake that struck Tainan, Taiwan earlier this month, killing 117 people, news reports quickly zeroed in on a massive collapsed building that appeared, amid its tangle of fallen beams and other debris, to have been
Geoscientists and natural disaster management experts are well aware of the risk prevailing in the megacity of Istanbul: The Istanbul metropolitan region faces a high probability for a large earthquake in the near future. The question is: how large can
The region over the earthquake-generating portion of the plate boundary off Japan is characterized by variations in water depth and steep topographic gradients of about six kilometers (3.7 miles). These gradients, according to the researchers, can hide
JAKARTA—A large earthquake off the west coast of Indonesia has exposed major flaws in the multimillion-dollar warning system installed after the deadly 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, raising questions about whether the country would be able to prevent a
A shallow magnitude 3.1 earthquake was reported Wednesday morning 29 miles from Alpine, in eastern San Diego County, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 7:49 a.m. Pacific time at a depth of 2.5 miles. According to the USGS