Hani Abughazaleh and friends had been fishing off the coast of Beirut, Lebanon. “We heard a few small explosions and saw white smoke rising above,” he told CNN. CNN producer Beirut Ghazi Balkiz said the initial explosion occurred at 6:07 local time. Abughazaleh started taking a video at 18:08 local …

A magnitude 3.1 earthquake shook northern California Thursday morning. See details about this earthquake on The Chronicle’s Quake Tracker. The U.S. Geological Survey discovered the quake at 9 a.m. with an epicenter 20.2 miles northwest of Santa Cruz. With a magnitude of 3.1 and depth of 4.35 miles, this quake …

The Hotel Chin shuai is located on August 9, 2009. In Typhoon Morakot in Chihpen, in Taitung province Taitung, in southeastern Taiwan, collapses in flood water. New research connects typhoon landings to a series of small earthquakes that follow. (STR / AFP via Getty Images) Typhoon Morakot brought extensive floods …

The Community Task Force of Multnomah County has made its recommendations for how a new, earthquake-ready Burnside Bridge could look and function. The Task Force, a group of about 20 community members, area business leaders and others, recommends a long span replacement bridge – a lift bridge at the same …

A 4.8 magnitude earthquake shook southern Puerto Rico late Thursday, leaving behind hurricanes in a region rattled by clusters of earthquakes and tremors since late last year. There were no immediate reports of casualties or widespread damage from the quake, which struck seven miles off the coast of Guayanilla and …