The hydropower dam, in quake-prone Tibet, is set to be the world’s biggest. But China has said little about the project, ...

In making use of earthquake waves, Sanne has seen deeper than most ... scientists are revealing why Earth has such favourable conditions for both plate tectonics and life. If you want to experience a ...

A quake of magnitude 8.0 that killed 69,227 people in May 2008 was one of China's deadliest natural disasters in decades. The ...

BEIJING - At least 126 people were killed in Tibet by this week's earthquake ... Sichuan, Qinghai and Yunnan, especially on the edges of the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau above the plate boundaries ...

Since then, a series of other earthquakes have struck the region, including a magnitude 5.5 quake in Qinghai Province and a magnitude 3.1 tremblor in Sichuan ... the Indian Plate and the Eurasian ...

The AP reports that a 5.8-magnitude earthquake hit a mountainous area of Southwest China killing ...

In May 2008, a 7.9 earthquake in Sichuan province in the southwest killed nearly 90,000 people. The collapse of schools and other buildings led to a yearslong effort to rebuild using more quake ...

(AP Photo/Andy Wong, File) FILE -A portrait of Mao Zedong near writing commemorating Chinese ancestors is displayed on a wall damaged by earthquake near Shangli town in southwestern China’s Sichuan ...

China: Documentary filmmaker Chen Pinlin sentenced to three and a half years for covering historic protests against censorship Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled by the three-and-a-half-year ...

The site lies along an earthquake-prone tectonic plate boundary, raising concerns about landslides and mudslides. A senior engineer from Sichuan’s provincial geological bureau warned in 2022 that ...