The damage in Caracas and La Guaira has reignited the debate over the safety standards required for buildings in earthquake-prone countries ...

Scientists at Stanford have unveiled the first-ever global map of rare earthquakes that rumble deep within Earth’s mantle rather than its crust. Long debated and notoriously difficult to confirm, ...

Emergency services work at the site of a collapsed building after an earthquake, in Caracas, Venezuela. Venezuela on Wednesday night declared a state of emergency after two powerful earthquakes - ...

Two major earthquakes occurred in Venezeula on June 24, the first a magnitude 7.2 and the second a magnitude 7.5 a minute later. It is estimated that thousands of people have died and several thousand ...

Earthquakes happen when parts of the Earth’s outer shell move suddenly along a crack in the ground. This movement sends vibrations through the land and the ground shakes. When these quakes happen deep ...

By Maxwell Briceno and Sarah Kinosian LA GUAIRA, Venezuela, June 29 (Reuters) - When late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez built this coastal housing development bearing his name as part of his socialist ...

Scientists have confirmed that a mysterious Utah earthquake first detected in 1979 really did occur nearly 90 kilometers underground—far deeper than anyone thought earthquakes could happen beneath a ...

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