While Tuesday's quake and the devastation left in its wake is tragic, it pales in comparison to some that rocked the world in the recent past.

Here are 10 takeaways from The Oregonian/OregonLive’s four-part series on school seismic safety in the Portland area.

In the areas near the source, the first tsunami surges arrived in as little as 30 minutes after the earthquake. Most of the Kamchatka coastline is uninhabited and the highest tsunami water levels ...

The external power supply to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), seized by Russia, has been down for more than three days - the longest such outage to date - raising concerns over the plant's ...

External power to the six-reactor Zaporizhia nuclear power plant (NPP) in the Russian-occupied city of Enerhodar, Zaporizhia region, was disconnected more than three days ago, which raised concerns ...

One of the detainees is Oleksandr Kryukov, who previously lived in the Russian-occupied part of Luhansk Oblast and later moved to Russia.

External power to Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has been cut for over three days, forcing reliance on emergency generators. The outage has raised serious safety concerns at ...