THE WEEK travelled to Dholera in Gujarat, where a 920sqkm-megacity is rising fast to build semiconductors—a city larger than ...

Hyderabad: India will soon have a new map of earthquake hazard zones, keeping up with the fast-developing infrastructure needs of the country, and will return from the current five-zone to a six ...

The Mandi district falls under seismic zone 5, which is a high-damage risk zone. An earthquake of 6.1 and later 3.9 magnitude struck areas of Tajikistan in Central Asia. The twin earthquakes also ...

Leh and Ladakh both lie in Seismic Zone-IV of the country, which means they are at a very high risk in terms of vulnerability to earthquakes. Lying in the tectonically active Himalayas region ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A 5.2 magnitude earthquake rattled through several counties across Southern California Monday morning. If you thought the shaking felt more powerful than a magnitude 5 ...

Geologist Robert Yeats, author of 'Earthquake Time Bombs', has highlighted the risks associated with the presence of several large US cities in the Pacific Northwest's Cascadia subduction zone.

Two months after the most destructive wildfires in Los Angeles history, Cal Fire has released updated Fire Hazard Severity Zone maps for the county. The surveys use various criteria to identify ...

A massive 7.7 earthquake originating in Myanmar has collapsed buildings over 600 miles away in Bangkok, Thailand ...

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection released updated fire-hazard severity-zone maps for Los Angeles County for the first time in over a decade on Monday, adding more than ...

Additional information collected about the earthquake may also prompt U.S.G.S. scientists to update the shake-severity map. The San Diego County Sheriff’s Office said that there had been no ...

The three USAID workers have been sleeping on the streets in the earthquake zone, Wong said, adding that their terminations would take effect in a few months. Residents have been sleeping outside ...