The death toll from the devastating earthquakes that struck southern Turkey on Monday has reached 22,000, and is likely to rise as Turks and Syrians continue to comb the rubble of their shattered ...

The devastating earthquake that hit Lisbon, Portugal in 1755 fueled de-Christianization in Europe. Satirical French writer Voltaire, writing just after the disaster that killed tens of thousands of ...

Portugal, a city not far from the boundary between the Eurasian and African tectonic plates, is no stranger to earthquakes. In 1755, at least 50,000 in the area lost their life to one with an ...

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Mark Molesky, associate professor at Seton Hall University, about his book, This Gulf of Fire: The Destruction of... 'This Gulf Of Fire' Examines The Lisbon, Portugal, ...

The great earthquake that suddenly destroyed Lisbon in November 1755 was perhaps the most disastrous natural phenomenon to strike Europe since the Mt. Vesuvius explosion of the first century—at maybe ...

LISBON, PORTUGAL — It was a chilling discovery: a mass grave of human bones — skulls smashed and scorched by fire, dog bites on a child's thigh bone, a forehead with an apparent bullet hole. Three ...

This paper traces some of the main developments in the study of earthquakes and their scientific investigation from 1755 (the year of the Great Lisbon Earthquake: GLE) to 1855. The GLE was widely ...