Ecuador's state-run oil company Petroecuador has declared an emergency at the country's largest refinery after finding damage ...

A shallow 6.3-magnitude earthquake left more than 30 people injured, damaged more than 800 buildings and caused widespread power cuts in the Ecuadoran port city of Esmeraldas on Friday. Ecuador's ...

A growing list of heritage crafts face extinction, threatening the future of specialist fashion manufacturing in the UK.

Volcanoes are among nature’s most powerful forces — breathtaking yet potentially catastrophic. According to a visual produced ...

During an earthquake scenario with the highest level of subsidence, or land sink, the area at risk of flooding would expand by 116 square miles. Among the areas at risk after a megaquake along the ...

A major earthquake along a West Coast fault could have catastrophic consequences across coastal Washington, Oregon and northern California. Running offshore from northern California to British ...

The Pacific Northwest is ripe for a major earthquake — and shaking and tsunamis wouldn’t be the only threats from such an event, according to new research. Coastal land would also sink nearly ...

A large quake could cause a downward shift of anywhere from 6 inches to 6 feet. Researchers are sounding an alarm about an earthquake fault along the Northern California coast.

A long-feared monster earthquake off California, Oregon and Washington could cause some coastal areas to sink by more than 6 feet, dramatically heightening the risk of flooding and radically ...

The authorities have inspected 18,074 buildings in İstanbul following the earthquake that struck the Marmara Sea on Apr 23, Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change Minister Murat Kurum has ...