In May 2008, a 7.9 earthquake in Sichuan province in the southwest killed nearly 90,000 people. The collapse of schools and other buildings led to a yearslong effort to rebuild using more quake ...

A powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake has struck the Caribbean Sea triggering tsunami warnings for a number of countries, the US Geological Survey (USGS) has said. Officials say the earthquake’s ...

Over the past five years, there have been 29 earthquakes with magnitudes of 3 or above within 200 km of the epicenter of Tuesday’s temblor, according to the Sichuan province’s earthquake bureau.

China has launched a search for more than 30 people after a landslide hit the southwestern Sichuan province. The landslide ...

Over 30 people are missing after a major landslide in southwestern China Saturday, according to the country's state-run media ...

A massive earthquake in Nepal in 2015 shuttered almost a fifth of its hydropower for more than a year. The Jan. 7 quake in Tibet, the fifth-deadliest in China since the 2008 Sichuan temblor ...

Tibet's earthquake of magnitude 6.8 that killed 126 and damaged four water reservoirs this week highlights the risks from a hydropower building spree by Asian giants China and India in one of the ...