A moderately strong, 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck in Ethiopia on Sunday, according to the United States Geological Survey.

The beloved Virika Cathedral—an architectural and historical landmark that had stood for nearly six decades—collapsed, ...

A major political storm has hit Rivers State as all political office holders appointed by suspended Governor Siminalayi Fubara have been axed in a sweeping purge led by the state’s new administrator, ...

Greece's tourism jewel, Santorini, welcomed its first cruise ship of the year on Sunday after thousands of small earthquakes in February created a state of emergency, forced thousands to flee and ...

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.

Records indicate that the destructive earthquake, in the early hours of Sunday, 20 March 1966, was officially recorded at a ...

The strongest earthquake since 1900 - in 1989 - had a ... AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa - aggregating, producing and distributing 500 news and information items daily from over ...