Jakarta is one of the largest cities in the world and one of the most earthquake-prone. It is located within the Pacific Ring ...

Natural events such as earthquakes and extreme weather patterns have fascinated and alarmed scientists for centuries. While both phenomena can independently cause significant disruption understanding ...

By the metric of length, most of the bridges that have ranked among the biggest ever built are located in Asia and were constructed after the year 2000.

A new analysis of earthquake rupture directivity provides essential insights for seismic hazard and risk assessments in urban ...

measured 4 in Taitung County and Hualien County on Taiwan's seven-tier intensity scale, the data showed. An image provided by the Central Weather Administration shows the location of an earthquake ...

with a fault line also running directly through Herat. When earthquakes strike, their magnitude is important but also their depth, with shallow earthquakes wrecking more damage than those deeper ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A magnitude 5.7 earthquake occurred off the coast of southeast Taiwan at 1:09 p.m. on Thursday, according to the Central Weather Administration. The CWA said its epicenter was ...

Kabul [Afghanistan], March 10 (ANI): An earthquake of magnitude 4.0 jolted ... Afghanistan sits on numerous fault lines between the Indian and the Eurasian tectonic plates, with a fault line ...

The last significant earthquake to shake up the region was Bowen’s 5.8 tremor in 2016 Dr Waszek also addressed a social media theory that there was a fault line running from Townsville to ...

By Adam Nossiter Jennifer Johnston, an admired Irish novelist whose precise, carefully woven fictions depicted historic fault lines in her country’s upper crust and frailties in its latter-day ...