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Earthquakes

Antakya’s Uzun Çarşı, a historic covered bazaar, was partially destroyed during the Feb. 6 earthquakes. Workers have cleared much of the debris from walkways and shopkeepers have reopened, sometimes directly across from piles of rubble.

In Turkey’s hardest-hit province, earthquake survivors adapt to a life without buildings

Natural disasters

Six months after twin earthquakes devastated southern Turkey and northern Syria, the residents who remain are carving out a life amid the rubble.

Tettegouche State Park in Minnesota

The Midcontinent Rift could have split North America apart a billion years ago. Why didn’t it?

Technology
Injection of wastewater into disposal tanks is linked to man-made earthquakes in Oklahoma

Are we causing earthquakes in Oklahoma?

Environment
An injured woman walks toward a hospital soon after an earthquake struck Sankhu, Nepal, on May 12, 2015. The 7.3-magnitude quake killed more than two dozen people in Nepal and neighboring states.

Dozens more die after another major quake hits Nepal

Development
A woman carries her belongings as she walks over a collapsed house in Bhaktapur, Nepal, on April 27, 2015.

Nepal’s quake preparations not enough, despite 20 years of warnings

Science

Dozens killed in Turkish earthquake (with video)

A magnitude 7.2 earthquake was reported near the Turkish-Iranian border Sunday afternoon Turkish time. The death toll is expected to rise into the hundreds or thousands.

Japan’s earthquake-resistant buildings

Environment

The reason why more buildings didn’t collapse in Japan’s earthquake is because engineers prepared them to bend, but not break.

A 5.9 magnitude earthquake hits East Coast

Environment

White House, Pentagon and Capitol evacuated as powerful earthquake hits Richmond, Virginia.

Top of the Hour: Earthquake Rattles East Coast, Morning Headlines

Millions of residents along the East Coast of the United States felt a magnitude 5.8 earthquake yesterday. Though the epicenter was in Virginia, tremors were felt all the way up to New York and New England, and south to North Carolina.

Japan: Recovering from Aftershock

Nearly one million people in Japan are still without power this morning following a powerful aftershock that rattled the nation. the 7.1 aftershock was the strongest to hit the region since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Reporter for The New York Times, Ken Belson, is in Tokyo. He says the aftershock comes at a […]