It's confirmed: The largest deep earthquake ever recorded happened in May off the coast of Russia. But this massive temblor is still a mystery to scientists. The magnitude-8.3 earthquake occurred on May 24, 2013, in the Sea of Okhotsk, deep within the Earth's mantle. The earthquake, descr...
14 days after the devastating earthquake that has killed tens of thousands in Haiti, Rico Dibrivell, has been pulled alive from the rubble of a collapsed building the capital. U.S. troops rescued the 35-year-old from the ruins in Port-au-Prince. Avatar mountain in China – A Chinese mou...
Even the biggest experiment failed by 12 years, when geologists predicted an earthquake at Parkfield, Calif., by 1994, and set up instruments to catch the coming temblor. The actual quake hit in 2004. One of the biggest hurdles is that geologists still don't understand why earthquakes start ...
The Northridge quake in 1994 caused more than $12 billion in insured losses, though the impact was muted by the fact that most California homeowners are not insured for quake damage. More recently, an earthquake in Northern California in August 2014 caused some damage in the state’s wine-pro...
Visitors flock to the Naeba ski resort in Japan to participate in the 3-day annual Fuji Rock festival which stages both Japanese and international bands. The festival has been cancelled for 2011 after the disastrous earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in March. ...
School board member Warren Furutani added: “My personal opinion is that Sid has not only stabilized the school district, but really gotten the reform movement going, even after the earthquake literally broke things up. He never acts tired, he just moves forward.” ...
catchy material, and inventive transitions will always prevail. That said, one can’t help but wonder how many more awesome records they would’ve put out if not for guitarist/vocalist Mieszko Talarczyk’s untimely demise (from the infamous December 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami disas...
catchy material, and inventive transitions will always prevail. That said, one can’t help but wonder how many more awesome records they would’ve put out if not for guitarist/vocalist Mieszko Talarczyk’s untimely demise (from the infamous December 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami disas...
A powerful earthquake with a 6.4 magnitude rocked Southern California on Thursday, marking the strongest earthquake in the region since 1999, officials said. "We will continue to have a lot of aftershocks," seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones warned at a news conference following the quake. A magnitude...
Earthquakes— 1906 in San Francisco, 1936 in India, 1949 in Ecuador, 1959 in Montana, 1970 in Peru, and the earthquake that caused the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004.Floods— 1950 in Canada; 1953 in the Netherlands; 1964 in California, Oregon and Washington; multiple years in the aftermath ...