Some days, the weather just chooses to screw with your mind. Today is one of those days. As well as the blizzards that (hopefully) have you stuck at home with your feet up, the UK's also experienced an earthquake big enough to knock stuff off shelves. Read More >>
This is incredible. 18 months after an earthquake hit Christchurch, New Zealand and buried a just married couple's camera, the camera pops up on their driveway containing all the wedding pictures they thought they would never see again. Read More >>
On Sunday, Northern Italy was rocked by a magnitude-6.0 earthquake. In the process, many cheese factories in the region suffered damage—and it is estimated that over 300,000 wheels of cheese, thought to be worth at least £202 million, have been destroyed. Read More >>
Earthquake survivors buried under tonnes of rubble normally owe their lives to drinking their own pee. Not so for Japanese aid worker Miyuki Konnai, who says her laptop helped her through the ordeal. Read More >>
Japan is hoping to have the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant safely shuttered by the end of the year, but a little radioactive wrench just got dropped: inspectors have discovered evidence of very recent fission. That's bad news. Read More >>
Japanese researchers have spent the past few months surveying Tsunami damage at 5,300 coastal locations. This information has created the largest Tsunami survey dataset in the world and the first map to visualize the crushing impact of the wave. Read More >>
Where does one secure the very best bacon? The supermarket? Shut up, rookie! You secure it from the heroic pig that survived for more than a month buried beneath the rubble of China's horrific Sichuan earthquake. Read More >>