There was no warning before the earthquake in Lisbon on Monday morning last week. Worse, the computer system of Portugal’s oceanic and atmospheric agency crashed shortly after the shaking began at ...

A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Naples and is one of the strongest recorded quakes in the area in recent history. The shake happened early on Thursday, March 13, and sent 11 people to the ...

Scientists have identified a previously unknown seismic phenomenon that was likely responsible for Europe’s largest recorded earthquake that struck Lisbon in 1755, killing tens of thousands.

In France, for example, the incumbent government was so decisively repudiated that President Emmanuel Macron dissolved the legislature and called for new elections this summer. After two generations ...

MONTE CARLO, Monaco--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide (AIR) released updates to its Extratropical Cyclone and Earthquake Models for Europe. Both models were significantly ...

Earthquake swarms in Central Europe, particularly within the West Bohemian and Eger Rift regions, are a manifestation of complex interactions among tectonic stress, crustal fluids and underlying ...