The quake was initially recorded at 7 magnitude which struck at a depth of 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) off the southwest tip of the South Island, the USGS said.

New study shows that some parts of the Hawaiian Islands, “sea level rise impacts will be felt much sooner than previously ...

Conditions have gotten so dire that low-lying areas in Honolulu, Waikiki and Pearl Harbor could be inundated in the coming ...

California isn’t the only coastal oasis that’s at risk of submersion. Scientists have revealed that certain regions on the ...

Most home insurance policies include cover for subsidence as standard, so often you don’t actually need special insurance to cover subsidence. The exception to this may be if your home has a history ...

Landslides and erosion could also lead to subsidence, the study said. Tectonic activity, or the movement of the Earth's plates that activate volcanoes and earthquakes, could have an opposite effect, ...

A total of 144 coal samples were collected from drill cores of coal mines in 36 tectonic units of the study area (Figure 2). The samples were collected from the 6# and 16# coal seams under simple ...

The Mahanadi Graben is a geological structure formed due to tectonic activities, such as rifting and subsidence, which occurred during the breakup of the ancient supercontinent Gondwana. It is part of ...