Earthquakes are natural phenomena characterized by the sudden shaking of the Earth’s surface. They result from the release of ...

Michael Fowler is a Hawke’s Bay author and historian. OPINION. On the evening of the 3 February 1931, Hawke’s Bay Earthquake, ...

About 90% of earthquakes happen along the Pacific Ring of Fire, which stretches all the way from New Zealand, up through Indonesia and Japan, across the Pacific at Alaska's Aleutian Islands ...

Once devastated by earthquakes, New Zealand’s second-largest city is bursting with new restaurants, gleaming architecture and ...

The Australian and New Zealand general insurance market is dominated by a handful of large players. Insurance Australia Group’s AUD 16 billion in gross written premiums makes it the market leader.

Santorini has fallen victim to a series of false, viral videos which allegedly show the Greek island engulfed in lava, as it ...

A strong, 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck in Ethiopia on Friday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The ...

From late July to October 2022, residents of the Manu'a Islands in American Samoa felt the earth shake several times a day, ...

A tsunami threat warning has been issued after a powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck 200km south-southwest of the Cayman Islands late on Saturday night (UTC) (Sunday morning NZT). The Pacific ...

The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude 7.6 earthquake occurred Saturday around 6:23 p.m. Eastern Time with an epicenter about 129 miles southwest of George Town, the capital of the Cayman ...

A major, 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck in the Caribbean Sea on Saturday and triggered a tsunami advisory in Puerto Rico and ...