Thirty years have passed since the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake devastated Kobe and wide areas around the port city.

It’s probably no coincidence a report to have been released last Tuesday about what California needs to do to prepare for the next great earthquake, fires and floods is coming the same month of the ...

A 5.0 magnitude earthquake rattled Himachal Pradesh and neighbouring states, causing panic but no major damage.

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 ...

The Nankai Trough just off southern Japan poses a severe seismic threat, with locked plates accumulating enormous stress. A ...

In December 1989, the United Nations declared Oct. 13 International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction. At the time, the aim was to make disaster-risk reduction part of everyday thinking worldwide. Today ...

Hawaii County Mayor Kimo Alameda expects to declare a disaster after Friday night’s 6.0 magnitude earthquake.

Off the southern coast of Japan, the Philippine Sea Plate lies underneath the Japanese mainland. The locked tectonic plates threaten to unleash a catastrophic megathrust earthquake, likely within the ...