On New Year's Day 2024, a massive 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck the Noto Peninsula in north central Japan, resulting in ...

The region sits atop an ancient fault line, a pre-existing weakness in the Earth's crust that can be reactivated by tectonic stress, making it more prone to earthquakes. The USGS shows 'weak' to ...

Turkey is crossed by two major fault lines, and earthquakes are frequent. A magnitude 7.8 earthquake on Feb. 6, 2023, and a second powerful tremor that came hours later, destroyed or damaged ...

It was felt in several neighboring regions, reports said. Turkey is crossed by two major fault lines and earthquakes are frequent. A magnitude 7.8 earthquake on Feb. 6, 2023 - and a second ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone, a major fault that runs offshore from Northern California to British Columbia, is best known ...

The last major earthquake along the same Northern Anatolian Fault Line struck Kocaeli in 1999, killing more than 18,000 people. According to district-level projections by the İstanbul Metropolitan ...

A 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Istanbul ... killing more 50,000 people across both countries. With two key fault lines in its vicinity – the North Anatolian and the East ...

Istanbul — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 shook Istanbul on Wednesday, Turkey's disaster and emergency management agency said. There were no reports of serious damage or major ...

Turkey straddles two major fault lines and is regularly hit by earthquakes. The residents of Istanbul, in particular, have been bracing for a major quake that experts have warned for years is ...

East Rail line services resumed at around noon,” it said. The MTR Corp said the train’s lifting platform experienced a mechanical fault at around 4am after workers completed maintenance work ...

Scientists say the size of earthquake faults may have been previously underestimated, extending potentially dangerous ...