A major earthquake is forecast to hit the Oregon coast. If that earthquake triggers a tsunami, as experts predict it will, at least one town on the Oregon coast plans to be ready to protect the residents and visitors with a sturdy tsunami shelter.

A massive 7.9 magnitude earthquake rocked West Indonesia early Wednesday morning collapsing buildings along the coastal city of Padang in the Southern Sumatran province. The West Indonesian earthquake occurred underwater, triggering tsunami alerts to all countries along the Indian Ocean.

When Apollo punished King Midas by giving him donkey ears, only the king and his barber knew. Unable to keep a secret, the barber dug a hole, whispered into it, "King Midas has donkey ears," and filled the hole. But plants sprouted from the hole, and with each passing breeze, shared the king's secret.

Research at the University of Liverpool has shown it is possible to develop an 'invisibility cloak' to protect buildings from earthquakes.

Around 29,000 people have been left homeless following the April 6 earthquake in the mountainous region of Abruzzo in central Italy, the regional governor said on Thursday.

Early today, Jakarta, Indonesia was struck by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake in addition to five after shocks with magnitudes exceeding 5.0. The impact was in the Talaud Islands north of Sulawesi island. At this time, there have been no reports of injuries according the the AP.

First came the earthquakes, then the torrential rains. But the relentless march of sand across once fertile fields and bays, a process set in motion by the quakes and flooding, is probably what did in America's earliest civilization.

Brent Miller from the Horizon Project research team provided several indicators to watch for over 18 months ago on the national Coast to Coast AM radio show that would indicate world changing events could be very close.

This afternoon a very strong earthquake shook Costa Rica and measured up to 6 points on the Richter scale which felt throughout half the country to San José and Cartago.

The China Digital Seismic Network (CDSN) provides excellent opportunities to quantify the kinematics and characterize the dynamics of the active fault systems in China.

Scientists have long recognized that in the absence of notable earthquakes, the Earth at plate boundaries can experience slow deformation, such as nonvolcanic low-frequency tremor and aseismic creep.