As per the Bureau of Indian Standards, the seismic hazard zonation map of the country is grouped into four seismic zones: II, III, IV and V.

This week, it makes far more sense to test an aspect of our tsunami system that didn’t perform very well last December — who ...

New research from Victoria University of Wellington shows that low-cost, off the shelf seismometers can add great value to earthquake monitoring and even show promise as early detection devices.

This page links BBC Teach geography content to the objectives of the National Curriculum for England at KS1 and KS2.

Over the past two decades, more than 280 buildings have collapsed in Alexandria, resulting in the deaths of 85 people.

A minor, 3.9-magnitude earthquake struck in the San Francisco Bay Area on Monday, according to the United States Geological ...

Additional information collected about the earthquake may also prompt U.S.G.S. scientists to update the shake-severity map. Aftershocks can occur days, weeks or even years after the first earthquake.

A new analysis of earthquake rupture directivity provides essential insights for seismic hazard and risk assessments in urban ...

Non-volcanic tremor ramp up precedes slow slip in Cascadia by about a day, indicating that brittle-creeping process ...