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.

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 ...

TAIPEI/BEIJING -- A 6.2-magnitude earthquake jolted Tainan city of China's Taiwan, at 12:17 am Tuesday (Beijing Time), according to China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC). The epicenter ...

A VERY severe earthquake occurred in north-west China on December 25. From records at nine widely distributed observatories, the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey places the epicentre in lat.

Earthquakes in the Himalayas have a history of damaging dams. In the 2015 earthquake in Nepal, around a fifth of country’s hydropower projects was shuttered for more than a year. Despite such concerns ...

Chinese authorities in Tibet have detected problems, including cracks, at five out of 14 hydropower dams that they have inspected since a magnitude 6.8 earthquake rocked the southwest region last ...

The jolt on Monday shook the Dingri County in Xigaze of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. The earthquake shook the area around the holy town of Xigaze at 8:58 pm local time, according to the ...

BEIJING — A rural county in the Chinese region of Tibet, still feeling tremors from last week's magnitude 6.8 earthquake, was jolted on Monday (Jan 13) night by two powerful aftershocks barely ...

BEIJING, Jan 13 (Reuters) - A rural county in the Chinese region of Tibet, still feeling tremors from last week’s magnitude 6.8 earthquake, was jolted on Monday night by two powerful aftershocks ...