It’s been a year of unusual extremes for New Yorkers.

Authorities at Pompeii in southern Italy are introducing a daily limit of 20,000 visitors as part of efforts to protect the ...

The upper stories of Taipei 101—a 101-story skyscraper in Taiwan, the tallest of the region—feature a massive 660-ton sphere ...

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LEAVE IT TO BEEBER Al Beeber - managing editor As I write this column early on Remembrance Day in the silence of an empty newsroom with lights off to ...

It happened at around 2:17 p.m. nearly four and a half miles northwest of Fontana, according to the United States Geological ...

A preliminary 3.5 magnitude earthquake hit the Fontana area Saturday afternoon, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The quake was reported around 2:20 p.m. Saturday with a depth of about 1.5 miles.

Experts warned of powerful aftershocks in the days ahead as they puzzled over the forces that generated the magnitude-7.6 earthquake in the Noto region of Ishikawa Prefecture on New Year’s Day.

The seven schools were the last of the 53 public schools in the northern part of Noto Peninsula to resume classes after the magnitude-7.6 earthquake struck on New Year’s Day.

On Sept. 1, 1923, Tokyo and Yokohama were engulfed by horrific fires spawned by the Great Kanto Earthquake. A century later, Japanese should ask themselves whether the nation’s capital ...

The government is estimating that the Noto Peninsula earthquake caused damage to buildings and infrastructure totaling 1.1 trillion to 2.6 trillion yen ($7.44 billion to $17.59 billion ...

But for busy people, here’s a summary of things you should know about what to do before, during and after an earthquake in Japan. If you’re on public transport: Follow the same guidelines ...