Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Could the "big one" be about to hit? In New Zealand, Chile, parts of the US and other earthquake-prone regions, many fear that ...

A magnitude 4.9 earthquake struck Red River Parish in northern Louisiana on March 5, 2026, delivering the strongest onshore tremor the state has experienced in decades. The quake hit at a relatively ...

They are two of the West Coast’s most destructive generators of huge earthquakes: The San Andreas fault in California and the Cascadia subduction zone offshore of California’s North Coast, Oregon, ...

Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of three stories following a Standard-Examiner editorial board interview with Ogden Fire Chief Mike Slater on a broad range of topics including recent ...

Fifteen years ago, the world watched in horror as Japan was struck by the most powerful earthquake in its recorded history — ...

Japan is marking the 15th anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster on its northeastern coast as the ...

Tuesday’s quake is the deadliest the country has experienced since October 2013, when more than 200 people died in the ...

The long-term consequences of disasters are often understudied once media attention shifts to newer crises elsewhere.

More than a decade after one of the worst natural disasters of our time, people in Japan are still living under the threat of ...

More than 80% of people in Japan believe a disaster on the scale of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake could occur in the foreseeable future, but nearly 70% say they have not taken sufficient ...