Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

Thurston County was hit by the 6.5 Puget Sound Earthquake. With an epicenter near Des Moines, Washington, it was felt ...

is available in AFP's archives and was taken after Taiwan was shaken by dozens of earthquakes two weeks after the huge April 3 quake. The government said the quakes, which left buildings swaying and ...

(Reuters pic) A 6.0-magnitude earthquake ... and enhanced its building code to incorporate quake-resistant construction methods, such as steel bars that allow a building to sway more easily ...

A 6.4 magnitude earthquake has struck a mountainous, rural area of Taiwan’s south near the city of Chiayi, the island’s weather administration says, with reports of minor damage. Chipmaker TSMC said ...

The Japanese company will the tap a supply network for timber and building materials that it has cultivated in Europe. There are plans to develop the U.K. business into an overseas business ...

Japan welcomed a record number of tourists ... which is still recovering from last year's massive earthquake, so I hope this surge in inbound tourism helps the local economy.

Thirty years have passed since the Great Hanshin Earthquake. The earthquake, which had a focus directly under a large city, recorded 7 — the highest on the Japanese seismic intensity scale. High-rise ...

Japan's space agency signed an agreement on Friday with Kumamoto Prefecture to realize the practical application of a program that can estimate the extent of damage to buildings caused by earthquakes ...

The probability of a “megaquake” happening in Japan within the next 30 years has risen to over 80 per cent, the government’s earthquake investigation panel found. A megaquake is defined as ...

One of the most significant events in modern history took place on January 17, 1995, when the Great Hanshin Earthquake struck the city of Kobe, Japan ... changes in building codes and disaster ...