At 19:49 on Friday 31 July 2026, the ground under Pozzuoli moved hard enough to crack a port, close two railway lines and send people running into the street in their pyjamas. The Naples earthquake registered magnitude 4.7. On paper that is a moderate tremor. In Campi Flegrei it was the strongest shock recorded since … Read more
Update, July 30, 2026 (morning): Japan’s national government now says the confirmed death toll from the earthquake has risen to 28, according to Kyodo News, while Kumamoto prefecture’s own count and a separate scientific warning about a future Japanese megaquake add important new context. The “What Is the Confirmed Death Toll?”, “What Other Damage Has … Read more
At 7:48 a.m. on Friday, July 17, the ground shifted off the coast of Chiapas, Mexico. Within seconds, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake was rattling buildings as far away as Mexico City and Guatemala City. A tsunami advisory went up for the Pacific coasts of Mexico and Guatemala. Two hours later, it was lifted. No deaths … Read more
When the magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 earthquakes tore through northern Venezuela on June 24, 2026, the most haunting images weren’t cracked walls — they were entire apartment towers reduced to flat stacks of concrete slabs, floor pressed on floor with almost no open space between them. Engineers have a name for this: pancake collapse. So … Read more
A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck off Japan’s northeast coast on June 25, 2026, rattling the Tohoku region hard enough to suspend Shinkansen bullet train service and prompt the government to set up an emergency response team. Given Japan’s history with devastating tsunamis — most notably the catastrophic 2011 Tohoku disaster — many people braced for … Read more
On the evening of June 24, 2026, Venezuela was hit by two massive earthquakes within 40 seconds of each other — a magnitude 7.2 foreshock followed almost immediately by a magnitude 7.5 mainshock. Buildings collapsed across Caracas, a tsunami threat was briefly issued for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the United States … Read more