Iloilo City – More investments both coming from the public and private sector are needed in order to cut the economic losses that the Philippines would usually incur every time a natural disaster w

An earthquake measuring a magnitude of 5.1 on the Richter scale was recorded at 10.21pm last night 353.68 kilometres off Nukuni Village in Ono-i-Lau Islands.

Muscat: An earthquake of magnitude 4.6 on the Richter scale was recorded by an earthquake monitoring station at 6:46pm in Oman on Sunday, an official from the centre said.

The quake originated about 600km north of Darwin in the Banda Sea (pictured)

More lives are saved and casualties rescued by local people than outsiders in disasters around the world, a new report says.

SANTIAGO – Around 70 earthquakes of magnitudes ranging from 3 to 6.7 struck Chile on Monday in the regions of Coquimbo, Valparaiso and the city of Santiago.

A moderate intensity earthquake, measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale, rocked Kashmir valley, including summer capital, Srinagar, early this morning.

As Japan this week dealt with a trifecta of natural phenomena — flood, earthquake and volcano — a recent survey has found that Tokyo’s high exposure to man-made and natural threats makes it the wor

BEIJING, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale jolted the sea off the coast of Yilan county, Taiwan at 03:37 a.m. Wednesday, the China earthquake networks said.

MEXICO CITY – The U.S. Geological Survey says an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 has hit in the Gulf of California.