It’s been exactly 10 years since I last saw the Tukituki River, and I remember the day clearly because the water was very ...

Hundreds of years ago, a man named Tara founded the first permanent human settlement in Wellington. What do we actually know ...

Barker, S :Photographs of Napier after the earthquake, 1931. Ref: 1/2-139759-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22853033 ...

Ancient traces of massive undersea landslides has transformed scientists’ understanding of our biggest fault zone - and its ...

The Hikurangi subduction zone: a credible magnitude 8.9 earthquake and tsunami scenario. Video / East Coast LAB ...

Five boulders, delivered by glacier and balancing delicately on rocky pedestals in northern New York and Vermont, can help ...

A 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck off northern New Zealand on Friday, according to the US Geological Survey. The earthquake occurred in the Kermadec Islands area at 12.23 a.m. local time (1223GMT).

Texans were rocked by a "notable" 5.1 magnitude earthquake—one of the strongest in the state's history—on Monday evening, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reported. The quake struck in Martin ...

It has been a generation since Los Angeles had a major earthquake disaster. Even in an active seismic year, many residents say they refuse to become alarmist. By Corina Knoll and Jill Cowan ...

The magnitude 4.7 earthquake just north of Malibu on Thursday morning adds to what scientists say is an unusually active year for moderate earthquakes in Southern California. The Malibu earthquake was ...

Another earthquake struck Southern California on Monday, Sept. 16—the second in less than five days. On Thursday, Sept. 12, a quake centered in Malibu rattled most of Los Angeles County.