In April 2012, a Harley-Davidson motorcycle was found on Graham Island in the Haida Gwaii archipelago off the coast of British Columbia. It belonged to Ikuo Yokoyama, a survivor of the earthquake and ...

The long-term consequences of disasters are often understudied once media attention shifts to newer crises elsewhere.

Japan, a country long scarred by earthquakes, typhoons and floods, has lost countless lives to disaster. Those bitter lessons ...

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Nearly one year after two devastating earthquakes impacted more than eight million people in Nepal, deadly earthquakes have hit both Japan and Ecuador this past week highlighting the need for urgent ...

Preface / by A. Elena Charola and Robert J. Koestler -- 1. Back to back : the earthquake and hurricane of 2011 / G. Wayne Clough -- 2. 2011 seismic activity quakes the Smithsonian : the impact on ...

One hundred years ago, on the morning of June 29, 1925, an earthquake measuring between 6.5 and 6.8 on the Richter scale destroyed a great deal of downtown Santa Barbara and killed about a dozen ...

A checkout line is not where a majority of people expect to have an earthquake lesson, but that is where some of the Bay Area residents found themselves as they watched the shelves shake and faces ...