The 1956 earthquake was a mainshock–aftershock sequence, with aftershocks lasting at least eight months after the mainshock.

Tourists have left, schools are closed. Santorini, source of 2% of the Greece GDP, has been evacuated. There has been continuous shaking for two weeks. The epicentre is 20 km from Santorini and ...

China is on a clear course to become the world’s first “electrostate" — and is likely to eclipse the U.S. in atomic power in ...

What is the collective noun for a group of volcano scientists? While some tongue-in-cheek responses might be “an eruption of volcanologists” or “a swarm of seismologists,” we’ll stick to “an assembly ...

While the actual ski portion of the scene was filmed at St. Moritz, the cliff jump at the end was filmed on Baffin Island, Canada, in Auyuittuq National Park, where stuntman Rick Sylvester parachuted ...