Earthquakes accompany both subduction and rifting. In fact, that is how the plate boundaries were first discovered. In the 1950s, when a gl...

Texas was hit by the Great Galveston Hurricane on September 8, 1900, leaving about 12,000 dead. It remains the deadliest natural disaster i...

There were no immediate reports of any casualties. Monday's earthquake was centred in the town of Yesilyurt in Malatya province, the countr...

Two minor tremors of 3.4 and 3.1 magnitudes were recorded in 24 hours in Gujarat's Amreli district, taking the number of such earthquakes i...

NDRF has flown 11 vehicles in C-17 Globemaster aircraft of the Indian Air Force, which helped mobilise the rescue teams at various location...

The Mahindra Group boss was beaming with pride.

With the death toll rising by the hour, the massive earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on February 5 is already among the ten deadlies...

The earthquake was followed by an aftershock measuring magnitude 5.4, it said. No tsunami alert was issued by Indonesia's Meteorology, Clim...

A 62-year-old man died of a heart attack while fleeing to safety in Tarutung village, which is closest to the epicentre, said local police ...

On February 1 alone, the region had witnessed at least half a dozen tremors ranging between 3 and 4.1 on the Richter scale.

Eleven-year-old panda, Shin Shin recently gave birth to a cub in Tokyo's Ueno Zoo.

Since it was first released in English in February this year, more than 170,000 people have downloaded the app from around the world, and o...

The last time Bengaluru suffered an earthquake was on January 29, 2001, whose magnitude was 4.3 on the Richter scale.

Economic losses arising out of very severe natural catastrophes during the first six months of 2011 have surpassed all previous records.

Bilateral trade between India & Japan will be hit in the first quarter of the current fiscal due to massive destruction caused in Japan.

A strong earthquake rocked southern Iran on Wednesday, sending tremors across the Persian Gulf and shaking the skyscrapers of Dubai.

Southwest China's massive earthquake is expected to bring down the nation's soaring economic growth in 2008 by at least 0.2 percentage poin...