Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. Sacramento, CA – August 20, 2025 – The California Residential Mitigation Program (CRMP) announced today its second Earthquake ...

Earthquakes are some of nature’s most destructive forces, but what if we could better predict where they might strike? A new ...

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Over the past two decades, Haiti has endured the devastation of two catastrophic earthquakes — first in 2010 and again in 2021. Each disaster left behind widespread destruction: buildings reduced to ...

OPINION: California's earthquake preparedness achievements were born from disaster. It now needs to do the same to counter ...

SOUTHEAST Mo. – The Central U.S. Earthquake Consortium (CUSEC) has published a new tool that anticipates the deaths, hospitalizations, and economic losses that could result from a major earthquake ...

Earlier this year, a magnitude 5.2 earthquake near Julian was felt across San Diego County and as far as Orange County and Los Angeles. In 2010, a magnitude 7.2 quake near Mexicali caused stronger ...

BERKELEY — Earthquakes, flooding, wildfires and extreme heat are among the list of about a dozen hazards Berkeley is preparing for in its updated Local Hazard Mitigation Plan. The five-year document, ...

No one knows when the next major earthquake will strike. In the meantime, researchers are working to understand how these ...

Scenes of devastation in Cebu after Typhoon Tino: a damaged home in a rural village (top) and vehicles stacked in a flooded ...

An earthquake originating from the sea shook Tarakan and its surrounding areas in North Kalimantan on Wednesday evening, .