Scientists expressed surprise at the size of the tsunami that devastated the Indonesian city of Palu on Friday, saying an earthquake like the one that preceded it would not necessarily spawn such dest...

A tsunami that hit two central Indonesian cities swept away buildings and pulverized a substantial bridge, dumping victims caught in its relentless path across a devastated landscape that rescuers on ...

A 7.1-magnitude earthquake rattled Southern California on Friday night, one day after the strongest recorded quake there in 20 years struck — and seismologists warned that further episodes are expec...

A large earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 8.0 struck the Amazon jungle in north-central Peru early on Sunday, the US geological survey has reported.The quake, at a moderate depth of 110km str...

A strong earthquake shook Albania early on Tuesday, killing at least six people, injuring 300 and collapsing buildings. More people are feared trapped in the rubble.The US Geological Survey said the 6...

Grey spotsSir — We were surprised to learn that a statue of Mahatma Gandhi had been removed from a university in Ghana after students and faculty argued that Gandhi’s views of Africans were deroga...

Chief minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday set a five-year deadline for the redevelopment of Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) and announced that the “base isolation technique” will be used to...

A mass burial of people who died in last Friday’s earthquake and tsunami in central Indonesia has begun.Around midday on Monday, teams of workers, their mouths covered by masks, carried 18 body bags...

Two earthquakes hit Rohtak in Haryana in a span of an hour on Friday, tremors of which were felt in the national capital, the National Centre for Seismology said.The first quake, a medium intensity on...