AUSTIN (KXAN) — Landslides cause more than a billion dollars in damage in the United States each year, according to the American Geoscience Institute. Predicting them could soon be a lot easier. “We’ve all seen on the news probably the mudflows that ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 was recorded this Sunday at 11:18 a.m., 28 kilometers west of the Lempa River Delta, El Salvador. According to INETER, the earthquake had a depth of 40 kilometers and was caused by the collision of the Cocos and ...

Along coastal California, the possibility of earthquakes and landslides are commonly prefaced by the phrase, 'not if, but when.' This precarious reality is now a bit more predictable thanks to researchers who found that conditions known to cause slip along ...

Seismic events that struck Alaska and neighboring areas in 2024 are shown in this map. Although there were fewer events than in preceding years, Alaska remains one of the world's most seismically active regions, and there were nearly 40,000 events ...

Dams are important. In California, they generate 15% of our energy. They also provide storage for much of our drinking and agricultural water and a buffer for catastrophic flooding.

An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter has struck in the Philippines, causing buildings to violently shake as authorities issue an urgent warning to people living near the coast

BEIJING (Reuters) - A landslide in southwest China that killed 46 people was partly caused by an earthquake that hit the region four months ago, a geological expert said on Saturday. Unstable soil and steep slopes also contributed to Friday's landslide in ...

On May 12, 2008, the magnitude 7.9 Wenchuan Earthquake shook central China, its destructive tremors spreading from the flank of the Longmen Shan, or Dragon's Gate Mountains, along the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau. Over 69,000 people died in the ...