The quake struck 23 kilometers northeast of Virginia City, 24 kilometers southwest of Fernley, and 26 kilometers east of Reno-Tahoe International Airport, according to the automatic earthquake report.

Earthquakes are among the most formidable natural disasters, striking with little warning and causing widespread devastation.

Iceland's fears were confirmed as a volcano erupted south of the capital following a 'swarm' of earthquakes. Now, scientists ...

Oil drilling first began at Brockham, between Reigate and Dorking, in 1987 by BP and since that time about half a million ...

Its epicentre was located 16km northeast of the provincial capital of Banda Aceh and at a depth of 12km below earth.

While earthquakes are rare in Bangkok, they are relatively common in Myanmar due to the 'Sagaing Fault', a major north-south fault that separates the India Plate and the Sunda Plate. At least 1000 ...

A powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake near Mandalay, Myanmar, caused significant damage and fatalities, extending its impact to ...

The tremor happened about 90 minutes before a tree fell on a school bus on Fairmount Road. People usually do not feel earthquakes below 3.0 magnitude. TEWKSBURY - A minor earth tremor was reported ...

It could be two planets, or a planet and the sun. An inferior conjunction of Venus happens when the planet swings between the sun and Earth. Listen to Story Venus appears as a bright object near the ...

After spending over nine months in space, NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore have safely returned to Earth. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying the Crew-9 astronauts made a ...

Astronaut Sunita L. Williams of Needham, MA is safely back on Earth after months on the ISS NASA's Crew 10 has taken the places of Williams and astronaut Butch Wilmore The astronauts became ...

We look at what lay ahead for the Crew-9 astronauts. Listen to Story One of the most concerning effects is bone and muscle health deterioration Heart does not have to work as hard as it does on Earth ...