A major earthquake hasn’t struck any of California’s biggest cities in more than three decades, but the “Big One” is a matter ...

In December 1989, the United Nations declared Oct. 13 International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction. At the time, the aim was ...

Millions of residents, students and office workers in Los Angeles and Orange counties and across the state took part in the ...

The Great ShakeOut takes place on the third Thursday of every October. The event is part of a global earthquake drill.

The one-minute drill was developed to teach people what to do when a large temblor strikes. If you have the MyShake app, your ...

Supershear earthquakes are more common than previously believed, some scientists say — carrying potentially profound risk for ...

They are two of the West Coast’s most destructive generators of huge earthquakes: The San Andreas fault in California and the ...

A total of 980,458 participants were registered in San Diego to stop everything for a minute to "drop, cover and hold on" at ...

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck Mindanao, Philippines on Friday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GZF) said.

As parts of the country continue to experience consecutive typhoons and earthquakes, some Filipinos are reporting what ...

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