Hundreds of schoolchildren are trapped under the rubble and thousands are dead after a massive earthquake shook China's Sichuan province on Monday.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- California will star Thursday in a mock earthquake disaster drill - considered the largest in U.S. history - with some 5 million people pledging to do everything from ducking ...
... ) is the first geologic study of the underwater subduction zone faults that give rise to the massive earthquakes known to seismologists as mega-thrust earthquakes.
"The fundamental goal is to sample ...
A destructive earthquake will strike a lone, wooden condominium in Japan next week, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Professor Michael Symans will be on site to watch it happen.
... Southern New Zealand has moved slightly closer to the east coast of neighboring Australia as a result of a massive earthquake last week off the country's South Island, a scientist said Wednesday....
A sudden cluster of massive earthquakes which has shaken Asia-Pacific communities and likely left thousands dead has also jolted some scientists, who are starting to question conventional thought.
The death tolls from the massive earthquake that shook China on Monday have reportedly climbed as high as 13,000 people. More than 18,000 people are still unaccounted for in Mianyang in Sichuan ...
A tourist visiting a reserve during the massive earthquake in China says pandas seemed to sense something was wrong before the quake struck.
More than 30 sources of radiation were buried by debris from the massive earthquake in central China last week, but all have either been recovered or safely cordoned off, state media reported.
High above the world's oldest operating irrigation system, Zhang Shuanggun, a local villager, stands on an observation platform cracked by China's massive earthquake last week.
BEIJING (AP) -- Last month's massive earthquake in central China likely could not have been predicted, a leading American seismologist said Friday....
BEIJING, June 13 (UPI) -- Ninety percent of China's endangered pandas are in jeopardy after May's massive earthquake destroyed their last remaining habitat, scientists said.
... ) - A study of Indonesian reefs showed corals record cyclical environmental events and could predict a massive earthquake in the eastern Indian Ocean within the next 20 years, researchers said on ...
... as well. Just like veterans of war, earthquake survivors can experience post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and anxiety. In 1988, a massive earthquake in Armenia killed 17,000 people ...
A study of coral growth patterns has led researchers to predict a massive earthquake in the Indian Ocean in the next 30 years.
