Two powerful offshore earthquakes struck off the southern Philippines on Friday, killing at least seven people, while towns ...

The catastrophe at a Tennessee explosives plant started in a building that made devices used for mining and detonated more than 24,000 pounds of explosives, authorities said Friday.

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The families of the 16 victims killed in the devastating blast at a Tennessee explosive plant have been notified, authorities ...

Japan lies in one of the world’s most seismically active regions. The country has developed the densest seismic monitoring ...

Indonesian rescue teams are frantically searching for scores of young students buried for two days under concrete rubble ...

It was a very early morning in August when an entire mountainside in Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord detached and slid into the deep ocean water beneath it.

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An earthquake of magnitude 5.66 struck the Afghanistan-Tajikistan border on Friday, with a depth of 10 kilometer, reported the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ).