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The United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction and consultancy PwC warned large multinationals' dependencies on international supply chains, infrastructure and markets poses a systemic risk to 'business as usual'. As annual economic losses from reported natural hazards were up from $10bn in 1975 to $400bn in 2011, IBTimes UK takes ... (more)

When an out of towner named Gringo visits Chile for the first time, his two friends Pollo and Ariel take him out for a night on the town where they meet up with a trio of girlfriends at an underground nightclub.

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Chile on Monday, the US Geological Survey said, but Chilean emergency authorities said they saw no prospect that the tremor would generate a tsunami.

In years to come it may make your smartphone even smarter and help your car drive itself, with scientists believing basic global positioning technology can be accurate to the centimetre by the end of the decade.

A former hillside mansion which once commanded one of the most priceless views in Christchurch has been demolished in an emergency operation today after fears it could topple down a cliff.

Muscat: Recent research has revealed that the Makran Subduction Zone is more prone to earthquakes and tsunami hazards than previously thought.

While natural spring water may provide a source for industrial and commercial uses of water, it may not be suitable for human consumption, a researcher has said.

The 2.8 magnitude quake shook about eight miles south southwest of the town of Stroud, Okla., about 45 miles east of the Oklahoma City metro, at a depth of about five miles.

The U.S. Geological Survey says an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 has struck off the coast of Chile.

The quake was recorded at 5:49 a.m. local time Monday, at a shallow depth of 10 kilometres, some 600 kilometres from the city of Puerto Quellon.

Experts say the officer who killed a Long Island college student and a home invasion suspect on Friday was confronted with a split-second choice.

ST JOHN'S, Antigua -- On Saturday night, an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.8 was felt in several islands in the northeastern Caribbean, including Antigua and Barbuda, but there were no immediate reports of injury of damage.

It happened at about 9:43 a.m. in Southern Ontario and was preliminarily measured as a magnitude 5.1 by Earthquakes Canada.

A 4.9-magnitude quake hit an area near Baeknyeong Island off Incheon, west of Seoul, on Saturday.

A light earthquake was felt in Homer. The Alaska Earthquake Information Center says the earthquake occurred at 9:24 p.m. Thursday and was centered 28 miles southwest of Homer.

As earthquakes become more intense and more frequent in the north of the Netherlands, there is mounting pressure on the government to reduce the amount of gas being extracted there.

A massive earthquake along the New Madrid fault kills or injures 60,000 people in Tennessee.

A 5.1-magnitude earthquake west of Ottawa, Canada, did not cause damage to the areas surrounding the epicenter nor to Scranton, but was felt by many just before 10 a.m., according to The Associated Press and a local geology expert.

The capital felt a magnitude 5.2 earthquake Friday morning much less than a 5.0 earthquake in 2010, even though both were about the same distance away.

Two years ago, Grady County was hit by an earthquake. If another earthquake hit, would south Georgia be ready? "We haven't faced very many earthquakes in this area," said Jim Ellis, Grady County Emergency Management Agency director, "but it is still important to prepare because we are on a fault line.