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Based on seismic records and NOAA data, here is a list of top 10 most earthquake-prone countries in the world.
Countries with the most earthquakes are often located near the boundaries of tectonic plates, where seismic activity is most ...
Observatory says ‘tsunami heights of the first couple of waves reaching Hong Kong were too low to be observed’.
Western China is regularly hit by earthquakes. A magnitude-7.9 quake in 2008 left nearly 90,000 people dead in Sichuan, many of them in collapsed schools and other poorly constructed buildings.
SHANGHAI: China's tsunami warning centre said Wednesday (July 30) that waves of between 30cm and one metre were expected to hit parts of the eastern seaboard after a magnitude-8.8 earthquake struck ...
A massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake has struck Russia’s Far East, triggering tsunami warnings and advisories across the Pacific. China, Peru, and Ecuador have issued their own alerts, while major ...
Remarkably, nearly 2,000 years ago, Chinese scholar Zhang Heng is believed to have invented a groundbreaking device called ...
Early Wednesday morning, a powerful earthquake, one of the largest ever recorded, struck off the coast of the Kamchatka ...