Legislation that will bring significant financial relief to many building owners by refocusing the earthquake-prone building system has passed its ...

Adelaide sits on the most active seismic zone in Australia and has more than its fair share of tremors below magnitude-4, but it's been 71 years since it was rocked by a serious earthquake. Now, it's ...

A 6.9 magnitude earthquake shook northeastern Japan and caused small tsunami waves but no apparent damage Friday, days after ...

Japan is learning what life is life under a megaquake watch. NPR's Rob Schmitz talks to Richard Allen, director of the Berkeley Seismology Lab, about what it means.

Staff at the main hospital in Vanuatu's capital Port Vila have returned to work following a spat with the Public Service Commission (PSC).

The world's greatest earthquake belt, the circum-Pacific seismic belt, is found along the rim of the Pacific Ocean, where about 81 percent of our planet's largest earthquakes occur. It has earned the ...

The quake, which occurred off the coast of Aomori prefecture, followed a 7.5-magnitude earthquake this week that injured at ...

Glacial earthquakes are a special type of earthquake generated in cold, icy regions. First discovered in the northern ...

Photo courtesy of AFP When calamity strikes, the immediate imperative is saving lives, restoring essential services and ...

Wellington City Council’s Te Hoe Matua | City Strategy and Delivery Committee has today voted to revoke the previous Council ...

Health New Zealand is hiring an external project management team to run the Nelson Hospital redevelopment for the next six ...

The U.S. dollar advanced on Tuesday as better-than-expected job-market figures underscored a still resilient labor market ...