Researchers are deliberately setting off real (small) earthquakes to understand how to gauge the danger of a fault line ...

Nearly two dozen earthquakes have struck off the coast of Russia, near the Kamchatka Peninsula, in the last 24 hours, ...

A powerful 6.3 magnitude earthquake shook northern Afghanistan before dawn Monday, killing at least 20 people and injuring ...

British police charge 32-year-old Anthony Williams with 10 counts of attempted murder after a stabbing on a London-bound train. A rail staff member who tried to stop him remains in critical condition.

Seismometers picked up the ferocious winds and waves of Hurricane Melissa, showing how the tools can be used to better ...

The live test showcased the capabilities of the College of Engineering's Civil Engineering Research and Education Center, where researchers subject full-scale structural components to extreme ...

The hurricane weakened to a Category 3 after carving a path of destruction across Jamaica. Limited communications there have ...

The Android Earthquake Alerts (AEA) system leverages the accelerometers in Android smartphones. This helps detect seismic activity, transforming each device into a tiny seismometer. The system issues ...

US warship arrives in Trinidad & Tobago, near Venezuela, as Washington-Caracas tensions escalate ...

The upstart team from California hopes to continue its impressive inaugural season, as San Diego FC prepares to face off with ...

When a disaster such as an earthquake, flood or wildfire strikes, cities must act fast. They have to rapidly deploy first ...