The Libyan floods are the second major disaster to befall North Africa in recent days, after an earthquake in Morocco claimed nearly 3,000 lives. The Libyan floods are the second major disaster to ...

Relief workers are responding to dual disasters in North Africa. The death toll in the Morocco earthquake has topped 2,900 while Libya counts at least 5,300 killed in catastrophic flooding ...

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Brahim el Guabli, associate professor of Arabic Studies at Williams College, about the earthquake's impacts on rural indigenous communities in Morocco.

On June 21, 1990, an earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter scale struck northwestern Iran, killing up to 50,000 people.

Earthquakes are reportedly a rare occurrence in Africa. A 5.0-magnitude earthquake had previously struck Johannesburg, South Africa, on June 10, 2023, according to the USGS .

The earthquake, measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale, struck approximately 631 kilometres north of Rashid. The epicentre was located at a latitude of 35.12°N and a longitude of 27.0°E, with a depth of ...

Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, scientists say. Experts have long known that portions of ...

“The preliminary results show that the earthquake registered a local magnitude of approximately 2.2, as recorded by the South African Seismograph Network (SANSN).