The Latest Breaking News from Earthquakes

Rapid and unregulated urbanisation is one of the factors that make cities ‘critically vulnerable’ to natural hazards.

Some of the most powerful Middle East earthquakes in decades killed more than 1,000 people in Turkey and Syria on Monday and forced a halt in crude oil flows to a regional export terminal.

Movement of tectonic plates against each other sends seismic waves rippling across earth’s surface

Rescue crews are working to save any survivors trapped under rubble after two powerful earthquakes hit Turkey and Syria.

From China, to Iran to Haiti and Japan, there have been a number of terrible earthquakes in reecnt years

Some of the world's most deadly earthquakes in the past two decades are listed below, after a 7.8 magnitude quake struck central Turkey and northwest Syria on Monday and killed hundreds of people.

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake hits Khoy, which has experienced several earthquakes in the previous months.

The oarfish was the first reported sighting in Ecuador this year. When they are seen it can be caused by storms washing them towards land and are believed to be a sign earthquakes or tsunamis

The number of quakes in Pahala dramatically increased after the 2018 eruption of the Kilauea volcano

A 5.6 magnitude earthquake hit northwestern Iran on Wednesday, according to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC). The quake's epicenter was close to the town of Khoy in the Iranian province of West Azerbaijan. Iranian media have not reported any casualties yet. Major geological faultlines crisscross Iran, which has suffered several…

Oceans are full of sound. Waves, earthquakes and calving icebergs all contribute to the underwater soundscape. But so do human activities, and this can be a problem for marine life as it can seriously affect their physiology, behaviour, reproduction and even survival.