The British, in general, walked in the corridors of power or were instigators of events of great ... earthquake. The captain decided to have another look at Chiloe and the southern coasts of Chile ...

The biennial list is intended to raise awareness and funds to help preserve the sites it spotlights. Africa's Swahili Coast, Maine's lighthouses and Buddhist grottoes in China are also in peril.

Great Recession On Sept ... Latin America trembles Two earthquakes shake Chile and Haiti. In the Chilean sea is where a February earthquake had its epicenter, which lasted four minutes on the coast ...

1 to mark the 100th anniversary of the Great Kanto Earthquake, which devastated the capital and surrounding areas. The disaster left more than 105,000 people dead or missing. Many died in the ...

TOKYO -- A tsunami advisory has now been lifted after an earlier warning in the wake of a strong earthquake Monday off the coast of Japan's Miyazaki Prefecture, officials said. The U.S. Geological ...

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.7 struck the coast of San Francisco on Friday morning, the United States Geological Survey reported. The earthquake occurred about three miles ...

A large earthquake shook Kyushu, Japan, just after 9 p.m. local time Monday night, triggering a tsunami advisory for Japan's southeast coast. The quake was centered just offshore of Kyushu, about 7 ...

The study, by Dr. Christophe Vigny of Laboratoire de Géologie de l'ENS in Paris, France, and colleagues, was titled, "The 2010 Mw 8.8 Maule Mega-Thrust Earthquake of Central Chile, Monitored by GPS." ...

JAPAN issued a tsunami advisory after a magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck the country on Monday. The quake was at a depth of 23 miles and mainly hit the southwestern Kyushu region, said the ...