The book teaches earthquake safety, including the idea of “drop, cover and hold on” to protect oneself during a temblor and about heading to high ground if there’s a tsunami threat.

Wagstaffe has written a new book, Fault Lines, Understanding the Power of Earthquakes, that is an ideal introduction for children, especially those in Grades 4 to 7.

Oregon kids aren't complete strangers to the idea of earthquake preparedness; they undergo state-mandated earthquake drills at school.

I have a colleague who wrote a book for young children about earthquake and tsunami preparedness. Lin Glen, a retired health educator and former preschool teacher, published “Sofie and Danie… ...

It's a children's book called Earthquake Surprise. Author Linda Salisbury lives near Mineral. To write her book, she interviewed area kids about what the quake felt like.

UNICEF and partners are reaching children with urgently needed assistance following a series of deadly quakes and aftershocks in western Afghanistan.

Mandy Casurella, a licensed professional counselor who works with children and parents, was in a classroom at Anchorage’s Chugach Optional Elementary when the earthquake struck on Friday. After ...

Two years on, Emir is still missing. Dozens of families continue to search for their loved ones and at least 30 of the missing are children.

The earthquake coincided with the Friday prayer gathering. Another heartbreaking story unfolded in Mandalay during the rescue of a pregnant woman trapped for 55 hours under a block of apartments.

Children accounted for a third of the at least 310 dead when an earthquake hit Indonesia on Monday. Experts say the disaster highlights poor building standards in rural areas.

MADAME SOLARIO (374 pp.)−/Anonymous&−Viking ($3.95). After observing the new guest, the hotel doctor remarked ominously: "Geologists speak of faults when they mean weaknesses in ...

Harrowing images have emerged of some of the millions of children caught in the catastrophic earthquake in Turkey and Syria. By Farnaz Fassihi and Hwaida Saad A baby born under the rubble and ...