Residents have been warned to avoid indoor gatherings, check escape routes, stay away from cliffs and to drain swimming pools ...

The child was found unresponsive in the car by a male relative outside the centre in Earlwood, Sydney, Australia, in the city ...

The threat of earthquakes, tsunamis and wildfires is turning Oregon into a state peppered with emergency caches.

Authorities deployed emergency rescue crews to Greece's volcanic island of Santorini on Monday as hundreds of people ...

In terms of intensity, the earthquake caused light shaking mostly around the Massachusetts and Maine coastline, and some ...

At 10:21 a.m., a magnitude 2.9 quake struck about 10 miles north of Cabazon in Riverside County. First responders in both counties did not report injuries or damages due to the earthquakes.

Disasters, by definition, overwhelm local resources, making civilian responders like these essential ... That same year, volunteers responding to the Kobe earthquake in Japan logged more than 1 ...

MANILA, Philippines — A magnitude 4.1 earthquake struck a municipality in Southern Leyte on Thursday morning, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) reported.

A 2.8 magnitude earthquake shook the Richmond, Virginia area Tuesday afternoon, according to the United States Geological Survey. The quake struck about six miles northwest of Glen Allen ...

A 2.8 magnitude earthquake occurred at about 5:30 p.m. local time on Tuesday, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), with the epicenter of the quake situated just to the ...

Wednesday update: The U.S. Geological Survey reported early Wednesday that another small earthquake had shaken ... asking residents to call their non-emergency lines to report any damage.

This article was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partner InsideNoVa.com. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com’s free email subscription today. A magnitude 2.8 earthquake rattled the Short ...