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Taliban officials said the death toll could rise as rescue teams arrive and assess the damage from the quake, which struck ...

In the town of Khulm, near the epicenter, people dug through the rubble of collapsed mud brick homes with shovels and picked through debris to salvage what belongings they could.

Disasters at Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and Fukushima Daiichi have made many people scared of nuclear power. The company ...

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Hundreds of thousands fled their homes as one of the year's strongest typhoons ripped through the Philippines.

Once considered geologically impossible, earthquakes in stable regions like Utah and Groningen can actually occur due to long-inactive faults that slowly “heal” and strengthen over millions of years.

Local officials have already reported several deaths, warning the toll could climb as search and rescue operations continue.

A strong earthquake struck northern Afghanistan late Sunday at a magnitude of 6.3, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) ...