The Asia-Pacific region "continues to be the most disaster prone part of the world in 2015" and needs a risk-sensitive development approach, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said here Thursday.

The City Government of Addis Ababa and Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that will enable them to work together on earthquake risk assess

HONG KONG, March 4(Xinhua) -- An 5.3-magnitude earthquake jolted 217km SE of Lorengau, Papua New Guinea at 2016-03-03 21:47:49 GMT on Thu (2016-03-04 05:47:49 Beijing Time), the U.S.

A 7.8 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of western Indonesia, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reports.

There have been no immediate reports of damage.

A magnitude 4.9 quake struck northwest of Bakersfield, California, on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

A joint UN assessment report released on Monday states there has been improvements in food security since the April 2015 Gorkha earthquake.

New Delhi: Parts in Delhi including areas along the Yamuna River bank, the Lutyens Zone and North Campus of Delhi University fall in "high" and "very high" seismic risk hazard index and would face

An earthquake of magnitude 4.3 grades on the Richter scale struck the region of Moquegua in southern Peru, according to a report by the Geophysical Institute of Peru (IGP).