Track construction on California's high-speed rail system can begin after a lengthy preparation phase, according to Governor Gavin Newsom.

A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 struck the mountainous region of western China, near the Nepal border, leaving devastation in its wake. The epicenter was in Tingri, a rural county in ...

A surveillance camera shakes as a magnitude 6.8 earthquake rocks the northern foothills of the Himalayas near one of Tibet's holiest cities.

On December 22, the United States Geological Survey said that an earthquake struck near Lowville, New York. Earthquake Track ...

A Chinese spacecraft that burned up high over Los Angeles created a sonic trail detected by ground-based sensors.

Watch: Buildings collapse and landslides after 7.3 magnitude Vanuatu earthquake Rescuers in Vanuatu are racing to find survivors trapped in buildings, a day after a 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck ...

"Cyclones destroy everything outside, whereas earthquakes really destroy a lot of infrastructure inside the buildings." Vanuatu, an archipelago of some 320,000 inhabitants, sits in the Pacific's ...

HEALTH CARE UNCERTAINTY — After Congress spent years crafting new significant pharmacy benefit manager regulations and had ...

The 2.3-magnitude earthquake took place at 1:03 a.m. Central Time, about 2.5 miles south-southwest of town. It measured at a depth of 4.8 miles, according to the United States Geological Survey ...

Wellington, New Zealand (AP) — Vanuatu’s capital was without water on Wednesday, a day after reservoirs were destroyed by a violent magnitude 7.3 earthquake that wrought havoc on the South ...

At least 14 people have been killed and hundreds more injured after a major earthquake struck Vanuatu on Tuesday. The Red Cross reported the updated death count early Wednesday local time ...

Dee Ninis works at the Seismology Research Centre, is Vice President of the Australian Earthquake Engineering Society, and a Committee Member for the Geological Society of Australia – Victoria ...