The death toll from the devastating earthquakes that struck southern Turkey on Monday has reached 22,000, and is likely to rise as Turks and Syrians continue to comb the rubble of their shattered ...

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Mark Molesky, associate professor at Seton Hall University, about his book, This Gulf of Fire: The Destruction of... 'This Gulf Of Fire' Examines The Lisbon, Portugal, ...

The great earthquake that suddenly destroyed Lisbon in November 1755 was perhaps the most disastrous natural phenomenon to strike Europe since the Mt. Vesuvius explosion of the first century—at maybe ...

For decades, geologists have struggled to explain the massive earthquakes which struck Lisbon in 1755 and 1969. Now a fissure in the tectonic plate 200 kilometres off the coast of Cabo de São Vicente ...