According to Ceferino, preliminary findings showed that people’s responses were not linear. “The risk perception at some ...

Two major earthquakes occurred in Venezeula on June 24, the first a magnitude 7.2 and the second a magnitude 7.5 a minute later. It is estimated that thousands of people have died and several thousand ...

On Wednesday night, Venezuela declared a state of emergency after two powerful earthquakes of magnitudes 7.2 and 7.5 struck the country just 39 seconds apart, leaving a trail of widespread destruction ...

This time: Whidbey Island on the night of July 1. And while a magnitude 3.8 isn't necessarily a strong earthquake, and this only produced weak-to-light shaking, it's a relatively stronger magnitude ...

Earthquakes happen because Earth’s outer layer is broken into huge pieces called tectonic plates. These plates are constantly moving, although usually only a few centimetres each year. Most ...