San Francisco is requiring landlords to pay for seismic risk assessments of their buildings, particularly targeting around 4,000 older concrete structures. The program aims to encourage voluntary ...

Heavy rainfall causes severe floods in New Zealand ...

With the military mostly absent from post-earthquake rescue and recovery, ordinary people have taken it upon themselves to ...

The defunct Soviet satellite Kosmos 482 is hurtling toward earth at 17,000mph, but predictions about where and when it will ...

Behind the scenes of the earthquake shake experience for Shockwave: Hawke's Bay's Great Quake 1931. Photo / Gibson ...

If major earthquake hits the West Coast it could sink the land in minutes, new study warns - The region is overdue for a ...

A major, 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck in the South Atlantic Ocean on Friday, prompting a tsunami alert for parts of the ...

A 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck off the southern coasts of Chile and Argentina on Friday, the United States Geological ...

Authorities urged the to stay indoors, keep away from doors and windows and avoid travel and as winds reached a fierce speed of up to 150 kilometers per hour (93 mph).

Tory Whanau has decided not to seek a second term, reversing her previous decision to run again for the mayoralty at the local body elections in October. She had ...

A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck Drake Passage between Cape Horn and Antarctica at a depth of just 10 km (6 miles) on Friday, the United States Geological Survey said. Chile's National Disaster ...

Chilean authorities issued a tsunami warning for the country’s southernmost region Friday morning, after a major 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck in the ...