When disaster strikes, government emergency alert systems offer a simple promise: Residents will get information about nearby ...

Poverty, job loss and high insurance costs have led to a lack of earthquake insurance in New Madrid, Missouri — a town with a ...

Every hour, earthquakes take place somewhere on Earth as tectonic plates gradually move. This movement causes stress to build up over time, which is eventually released in a sudden jolt. While most ...

The state of Maine was hit by a rare 3.8 magnitude earthquake Monday morning, a tremor that could be felt across the New ...

BEIJING -- Chinese authorities have activated a level-four disaster-relief emergency response after a 4.8-magnitude earthquake jolted Yongning county in Yinchuan, the capital of Northwest China's ...

Some callers to the York, Maine Police Department questioned whether an explosion had rocked the coastal town, said Sergeant Brian McNiece. ”Th ...

York, Maine, just over the border. The quake was centered about 6 and a half miles off York Harbor. The 911 calls started as ...

Comment: Wellington may be most famous for earthquakes, but the tsunami that damaged the city 170 years ago proved it’s a ...

(KDVR) — In the wake of the Los Angeles County fires, Douglas County Sheriff Darren Weekly posted a message on social media reminding residents to sign up for emergency alerts. Many of the local ...

So why would he join a San Jose Earthquakes team that finished last ... “Every time that we can sign such good players is really important for the club, for us to have teammates of that level ...

A commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake and its aftermath ... Santa Barbara County Office of Emergency Management, Search Dog Foundation, and the American ...