I was playing golf when the "great earthquake of 2011" hit. The tennis tournament in New Haven was stopped and the stadium was evacuated. The press box shook at the Indians game in Cleveland.
If you think this week's East Coast tremblor was disconcerting, consider that this is the 200th anniversary of the Mother of All American Earthquakes.
An earthquake that measured 5.9 on the Richter scale devastated the Eastern Seaboard this afternoon, toppling lawn chairs and causing loose change to jingle on hard surfaces.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Addressing a throng of reporters with nothing to report since the entire North American populace lost interest in the story of an a...
The government of Port-au-Prince is set on using the Sylvio Cator Stadium for a soccer game in early August, and on July 18, the mayor unlawfully evicted the last of the residents living in the Stadium's parking lot.
Ten years ago on September 11, most New Yorkers fled lower Manhattan in horror as the first World Trade Center tower collapsed in a paroxysm of glass, metal and fire. Not Alison Thompson.
Time declared 2010 the Year of the Natural Disaster, and with the mass destruction resulting from the 5.5-magnitude earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Hait...
The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River is the world's largest hydropower project. Now the Chinese government has officially acknowledged the project's serious social, environmental and geological problems.
No one would build a reactor in a high-risk earthquake zone on a coast now. Not after Fukushima. Would they? Two of the world's biggest banks, HSBC and BNP Paribas, are doing just that. If completed according to plan, it will be the world's biggest nuclear power facility.
Last week, CNN proved once again that it is the television news source that occasional news viewers seek out when major stories break. It ranked ninth...
Mexico City has developed a series of initiatives to better enable both Mexico City's government and our 20 million citizens to respond quickly to a deadly earthquake.
It begins like a joke that only a liberal arts professor would tell -- what do you get when you dress thirty poets in safety goggles and hardhats, and put them on a boat together?
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The resilience and the determination of the New Zealand people cannot be underestimated. They are rebuilding their beautiful city of Christchurch, even as new earthquakes continue.