Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

10, 2025. (Photo by Shen Bohan / Xinhua News Agency/Newscom/MaxPPP) Catholic communities in China are mobilizing to support victims of the devastating 6.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Dingri ...

South China Morning Post (SCMP) reports that China’s Chang’e-7 mission next year will include a “smart robotic flying detector” to explore the lunar south pole.

Workers build mobile houses in Quxar township of Lnaze county in Shigatse, Southwest China's Xizang autonomous region, Jan 10, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] LHASA -- On the morning of Jan 7, just 10 minutes ...

Despite damage caused by looters and metal detectors, researchers managed to recover intact items ... Credit: Matthew Iskra / Davti Blur Excavation A team of geologists led by Professor Barbara ...

WORCESTERSHIRE, England (WKRC) - A man discovered a cache of over 1,000 coins from nearly 2,000 years ago by using nothing more than a metal detector ... the Iron Age and Ancient Rome were ...

BEIJING, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- A 5.1-magnitude earthquake jolted Taiwan's Tainan City at 7:49 p.m. Saturday (Beijing Time), according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC). The epicenter ...

CHINA: A secondary school student from Yinchuan is being celebrated across China for his brave and selfless heroism during a recent earthquake that struck the region. Guo Qing, a Yinchuan Foreign ...

Two earthquakes jolted the Philippines several hours apart on Thursday, authorities said, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or major damage. A magnitude 5.8 quake occurred off the town ...

"There is no such thing as a wild orange in China," botanist David Mabberley, adjunct professor at Macquarie University and author of Citrus: A World History, tells ABC Radio National's Blueprint ...

Behind every orange peel lies centuries of history. Leonard Cohen famously sang about oranges that came from China in his 1967 debut single, Suzanne. It turns out the Canadian singer was right about ...

At least 27 people were injured when a magnitude 6.4 earthquake – the equivalent of two atomic bombs – struck the county of Chiayi in southwestern Taiwan soon after midnight on Tuesday.