The crustal movements of Miyakejima island (Japan) have accelerated since a large-scale eruption of Mt. Oyama on Aug. 18, the Construction Ministry's Geographical Survey Institute said Thursday. The

Astronomer Yoshio Kushida believes he will receive forewarning should a major earthquake hit. "The signs of all major earthquakes that have occurred could have been observed," Kushida said in a

New detailed images of the bottom of Crater Lake in Oregon, US, are giving scientists a new look ag a previously hidden place. Crater Lake, with a depth of 608 metres, is the deepest in the US and

The Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Japan said Thursday it has developed technology to analyze the heat island phenomenon accurately to a degree that closely reflects how

Quake-prone Delhi that is lying in India's second-most seismic hazard zone and currently experiencing mild seismicity is least prepared to cope with an earthquake or any other disaster like floods or

There is bad news for Bhavnagar residents. The coastal town could be situated on a seismologically active fault line extending from Bhavnagar to Kodinar which has been causing numerous tremors over

A US electromagnetics expert believes that microwave radiation could prevent the formation of tornadoes. Ben Eastlund, a former head of nuclear fusion research for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission,

Hyderabad has been pinpointed as having "high" vulnerability to earthquakes along with some of its peripheral area, such as Rajendranagar, Moinabad, Patancheru, Sangareddy, Shankarpalli,

The answers to puzzling climatic phenomena may lie inside the Earth and not just in the atmosphere and the sea

Scientists unearth 178 million year old dinosaur fossils in Kutch