Additional information collected about the earthquake may also prompt U.S.G.S. scientists to update the shake-severity map. An aftershock is usually a smaller earthquake that follows a larger one ...

British rescuers have begun searching for survivors of the Iranian earthquake as officials predicted ... said the 20-strong volunteer team in Iran faced the the risk of disease from the corpses ...

She has covered Ukraine, Russia, immigration issues, and the revolution in Iran. Maya joined Newsweek ... Geological Survey (USGS). Newsweek's map below illustrates the earthquakes that took ...

The officials also said that two search and rescue teams were dispatched to the epicenter of the quake in Hajdak District, which is 400 miles south of Tehran, the capital of Iran. There were ...

A massive earthquake is feared too have killed up to 10,000 people as they slept in an historic Iranian city city. Hasan Khoshrou, who represents Kerman province in parliament, said there was no ...