Rafah was once the third-largest city in the Gaza Strip. It was home to around 200,000 people. Today it is a desolate moonscape of rubble and twisted iron. The city and its suburbs were systematically ...

Saudi Arabia’s plan for all this cheap electricity is to power enormous data centres for artificial intelligence (AI).

In the wake of a devastating earthquake in March and a recent history involving a military coup, human rights abuses, ...

A rare, ultra-long earthquake in Myanmar revealed that mature faults can deliver their full force directly to the surface.

Japan is lifting a megaquake advisory for the country’s northeastern coast, a week after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck ...

MYSTERY-HUNTERS have another Bermuda Triangle puzzle to chew over – a huge hidden structure lurking below the region.

The seventh edition of the Global Outlook (GEO-7) offers a stark vision of the decades to come. But its authors say the worst ...

This could explain differences between Bermuda and the rest of the world’s volcanic islands that have puzzled geologists for ...

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

A magnitude 4.0 earthquake Sunday afternoon three miles from Santa Rosa was followed a few minutes later by magnitude 3.1 and ...

A strong, 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck in the North Pacific Ocean on Friday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 11:44 a.m. Japan time about 71 miles northeast ...

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.