When it comes to safely navigating natural disasters, knowledge is power. Wherever you live geographically, it is important to know what threats you are up against and what it means to be prepared. If ...

At 8:11 a.m. on Thanksgiving morning, a magnitude 6.0 earthquake shook approximately 300,000 Anchorage residents from their ...

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A magnitude 7.6 earthquake shook Mexico's central Pacific coast on Monday, killing at least one person and setting off a seismic alarm in the rattled capital on the anniversary of two earlier ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaskans, roused by a major earthquake and threatened by the specter of a tsunami, moved in the middle of the night. They shuffled into schools that had become evacuation centers.

The quake was called an 'alarm bell' for Dhaka as experts believe that a massive earthquake is inevitable there.