Earthquakes

Reports of “earthquake lights,” like the ones seen in videos captured before Friday’s 6.8-magnitude earthquake in Morocco, go back centuries to ancient Greece.These outbursts of bright, dancing light in different colors have long puzzled scientists, and there’s still no consensus on...

MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) — A rare, powerful earthquake struck Morocco, sending people racing from their beds into the streets and toppling buildings in mountainous villages and ancient cities not built to withstand such force. More than 2,000 people were killed,...

Rescuers were digging through rubble in remote mountainous areas of Morocco on Saturday after more than 1,300 people were killed in the deadliest earthquake to strike the country in decades. The 6.8-magnitude earthquake shook Morocco’s High Atlas mountain range shortly after 11 p.m....

The 6.3-magnitude tremor hit Turkey's southern Hatay province, near the Syrian border, on the evening of February 20, killing at least 6 people and injuring hundreds more. The aftershock was not unexpected following the large earthquake. Aftershocks occur close by...

Rescuers continue to pull out more survivors from the rubble in Turkey and Syria as the death toll from last week’s earthquakes topped 36,000. The quakes have killed at least 31,643 people in Turkey as of Monday, and...

More than 21,000 people have been killed and tens of thousands injured after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Turkey and Syria on Monday, officials said. Rescue workers are racing against time to pull survivors from the rubble of collapsed buildings....

Thinly-stretched rescue teams worked through the night into Wednesday, pulling the living and dead from the rubble of thousands of buildings destroyed in Turkey and Syria by catastrophic earthquakes and aftershocks that have killed over 11,000.According to CBS News, Amid...

Tremor was so powerful the tectonic plates beneath Ankara have slipped in relation to Syria, experts sayTwo earthquakes, with magnitude 7.8 and 7.5, struck Turkey on Monday Data shows the country has shifted by up to 10 feet...

Buffalo and surrounding communities appear to have emerged virtually unscathed from the 3.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Erie County Monday morning, but it certainly gave people a fright."I heard a loud bang and then the building started shaking," said...

GAZIANTEP, Turkey — Rescuers in Turkey and Syria were desperately combing the rubble in search of survivors after a powerful earthquake collapsed thousands of buildings, killed more than 3,000 people and raised the specter of a new humanitarian disaster...