The megaquake warning that Japan issued last week sparked a new debate among US seismologists about when and how to alert West Coast reside...

Authorities have organised occasional trips to the village since, allowing those with homes in the most perilous parts to rescue everything...

The Guinness Book of World Records acknowledges the oarfish as the longest recorded fish in existence. However, the divers harbor concerns ...

In 1940, Tokyo was set to host the summer Games but they were cancelled. 80 years later, the city finds itself in a similar situation, alth...

London, April 18 (IANS) The long-held belief that strange behaviour by cats, dogs and even cows can predict an imminent earthquake is not b...

Researchers used steel blocks to closely mimic the physical forces at work in a real earthquake, and also records the seismic signals and s...

A majority of these places are in the Himalayas, one of the most seismically active regions in the world. These cities have a combined popu...

The resignation is to honour an accord signed in August last year when Prachanda was elected the Prime Minister with Deuba's support.

At present, there is no scientific technique available to predict the occurrence of earthquakes with reasonable degree of accuracy with reg...

A moderate 5.8 magnitude earthquake hit Uttarakhand on the night of February 6. As usual, there was the news rush -- breaking news, special...

The government has set up a state of the art institution — Shillong Geophysical Research Centre (SGRC) — to study seismic processes and gen...

After the dust settles on the tragedy, the current Nepal earthquake will provide an opportunity to advance our understanding of earthquake ...

Geologists are working towards setting up a mini-lab eight km underground near the seismically active Koyna region in Maharashtra.

Nine days before the temblor struck Sikkim and Bengal on Sunday, Dipak Ghosh, emeritus UGC fellow had an uncanny feeling.

India is stepping up its research capapilties to pick up early signals of an impending earthquake by setting up an network of observatories.

It was the fifth-strongest quake in the world since 1900 and the most powerful on record ever to hit Japan, but not the deadliest.

The massive earthquake that struck off the coast of Japan today ranks as the fifth largest in the world since 1900, scientists said.