Fifty-nine years ago, a powerful earthquake shook Uganda’s Tooro region, sending tremors across Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Kenya, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Records indicate that ...
A moderately strong, 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck in Ethiopia on Sunday, according to the United States Geological Survey.
The strongest earthquake since 1900 - in 1989 - had a magnitude of 6. ... AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa - ...
On March 11, 2011, a major earthquake and a subsequent tsunami caused the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan. In 2004, ...
The area falls within a geologically active region of the Great Rift Valley that has experienced a number of earthquakes and ... ocean – along the great East African Rift Valley.
China, as one of Africa’s largest development partners, has stepped up its efforts to support the continent’s disaster resilience through financial aid ...
France's second most popular destination could be hit with a tsunami and an earthquake within the next few years.
A series of earthquakes in Ethiopia’s Afar region has sparked concerns over potential volcanic eruptions, displacing thousands. This geologically active zone sits within the Great Rift Valley, a fault ...
Southern Africa has an extensive record of Mesozoic vertebrate fossils ... The problem is that other mechanisms, such as ...