This novel based on the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 and the death of Optimism seems to lack a forceful reason for existing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For decades, geologists have struggled to explain the massive earthquakes which struck Lisbon in 1755 and 1969. Now a fissure in the tectonic plate 200 kilometres off the coast of Cabo de São Vicente ...

In December 1989, the United Nations declared Oct. 13 International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction. At the time, the aim was ...

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The death toll in the crash of a famous Lisbon streetcar popular with tourists has risen to 17 after two of the 23 injured people died from their injuries while in hospital ...