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

At the school gates, some parents have left their children's identifications cards as a sort of makeshift memorial. Others still cling to them, like Bi Kaiwei. When the major earthquake struck a week ...

Just nine years ago, Canadian and American seismologists confirmed the existence of a previously unknown earthquake fault zone just five kilometres south of Victoria, called the Devil’s Mountain Fault ...