Boru Tedecho (36), a village leader from Mugasa, remembers a tremor when he was a child but nothing on the scale of the ...

The earthquakes have also sparked fears of volcanic eruptions because they are happening near two active volcanoes, Fentale and Dofen. The Conversation Africa asked volcano researcher Amdemichael ...

In an article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) presents a never-before-seen image of an oceanic transform fault from ...

says assessing a region's earthquake risk involves looking at historic earthquakes in the region and identifying fault lines, which are fractures between rocks. Africa, he says, lies on a complex ...

Here we will explain what caused this earthquake, and how it was able to have such a powerful effect so far away. The earth's upper layer is split into different sections, called tectonic plates ...

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake has struck near the coast ... Ecuador straddles the boundary where the Nazca and South American tectonic plates meet – two massive sections of the Earth’s crust ...