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 ...

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 ...

The quake, which occurred off the coast of Aomori prefecture, followed a 7.5-magnitude earthquake this week that injured at ...

Japan has recorded a series of powerful aftershocks in the past several hours, including a magnitude 5.7 earthquake near the ...

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

Escalating activity along a fault line in the Sea of Marmara is moving closer to Istanbul, seismologists warn.

Glacial earthquakes are a special type of earthquake generated in cold, icy regions. First discovered in the northern ...

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 ...