A 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit China’s southwestern Sichuan province ... such as earthquakes, fire and floods.

A magnitude 4.7 earthquake jolted the city of Hefei in eastern China's Anhui province on Wednesday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC). The quake hit Hefei's Feidong county at ...

One person has died and several people are missing after record rainfall brought flooding and landslides to coastal Japan, in ...

Floods and landslides killed one person and left at least 11 missing in central Japan, with recovery teams at work on Sunday ...

Economists are calling for China to unleash $1.4 trillion worth of "shock and awe" stimulus that could kick start the economy ...

Some 17 people were injured in the city of Salamiyah, western Syria on Friday following a 4.8 magnitude earthquake, Syrian state news agency SANA said. Taiwan hit by another big quake, no ...

At least one person was killed and several others missing after torrential rains caused flooding in a northern Japan coastal ...

and some 10,000 people die in earthquakes annually. Collapsing buildings claim by far the majority of lives, but the destruction is often compounded by mud slides, fires, floods, or tsunamis.

Residents on Australia's east coast have been rocked by tremors after a magnitude 5.0 earthquake left thousands ... the sequence,' he told Nine's Weekend Today. 'As the time goes by, the ...

The Seismology Research Centre recorded the earthquake near the town of Muswellbrook, approximately 170 km northwest of Sydney in the Upper Hunter region of the state of New South Wales (NSW), at 5:58 ...

An earthquake rattled southern Portugal Monday morning, according to the United States Geological Survey. The earthquake, which registered a magnitude of 5.4, was recorded at 5:11 a.m. local time ...

On Wednesday, August 28, four earthquakes shook El Salvador in less than an hour. The first occurred at 3:57 p.m. local time, while the second occurred 15 minutes later, the third at 4:14 p.m. and ...