Earthquake

Modeling seismic hazard for Australia is challenging but can't be taken lightly due to the relatively high risk.

Many areas along Japan’s coastline are at risk of being significantly affected by tsunamis of 10m or higher, depending on their topography.

The devastating Hualien earthquake in 1920 was the largest temblor ever recorded instrumentally in Taiwan.

"Great earthquakes" of around Mw 8.0 occur about once a year and stronger earthquakes are scarcer still - Valdivia was a 9.5.

The global protection gap between economic and insured losses results in an enormous cost to society.

For stable continental regions such as Australia, damaging earthquakes, although relatively rare, do occur.

Earthquakes in the U.S. usually mean California, but other parts of the country are also at risk.

AIR engineers visited Puerto Rico to inspect structural damage from the recent earthquakes.

Sinkholes opened up in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands after the January 28 Mw 7.7 Caribbean earthquake.

New Zealand’s most powerful earthquake in at least 200 years struck 165 years ago on January 23, 1855.