Turkey has been the site of some of the deadliest earthquakes in recorded history, dating as far back as the second century. The deadliest earthquake of all time (that we know of) was in Shaanxi ...

The 2004 tsunami was one of the worst natural disasters in history Image: picture-alliance/AP Photo/G. Singh In 2011, an undersea earthquake in the Tohoku region of Japan triggered a tsunami that ...

Powerful earthquakes that shook Turkey and Syria last week had resulted in more than 41,000 deaths as of Tuesday. It is among most devastating and deadliest disasters seen in recent history.

A near-certain disaster looms for California, but there are real things people can do to prepare. Here's what to know about ...

The world's deadliest natural disasters span more than 2,500 years of human history and include earthquakes, tsunamis and cyclones. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

The earthquake, estimated to be of magnitude 8, is considered the deadliest in recorded history, with an estimated 830,000 lives lost. The quake caused widespread destruction, including the ...

Here are ten of the deadliest landslides in recorded history, each leaving a significant impact on the affected regions. The Haiyuan landslides, triggered by the Gansu earthquake on December 16 ...

In 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean released ... The tsunami, the deadliest in recorded history, killed more than 225,000 people, primarily in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand.

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters ... on Tuesday was one of the country's deadliest in recent years. In May 2008, a 7.9 earthquake in Sichuan province in the southwest ...

It was thus one of the deadliest quakes in recorded history. In 2011, an undersea earthquake in the Tohoku region of Japan triggered a tsunami that in turn caused the worst nuclear disaster since the ...

Obviously, it is the deadliest earthquakes in recent history that remain etched in the collective memory and, with the help of data from the United States Geological Survey (USGS), we are going to ...