Yet, based on my conversations with emergency officials with the city and county, I believe we are unprepared to handle the type of emergency a major earthquake will inflict on ou ...

No one can actually predict when and where an earthquake will strike, only the area where one is likely to occur. But at 10:16 a.m. on Oct. 16, more than 24,000 Arkansans plan to pretend as if one is ...

A major earthquake could hit the Pacific Northwest at any moment. It’s not a matter of if, but when. And, with students back to school this fall, some in unreinforced, 100-year-old buildings, most ...

Sue Pyper never spent much time thinking about earthquakes — until she found herself startled awake by a big one.

Following the earthquake and tsunami warning that shook up the California and Oregon coasts on Thursday, the Oregon Department of Emergency Management is urging Oregonians to be mindful of hazard ...

THE Philippines sits along the Pacific Ring of Fire — the belt of tectonic activity around the Pacific Ocean where more than 75 percent of the world’s volcanoes and 90 percent of earthquakes occur.