Underground fires have plagued downtown Baltimore for decades. Now, for the first time, a professional engineering firm the city hired has provided recommendations on how to stop them. The report ...

At approximately 4:08 p.m., Hartford firefighters found an active fire with an Eversource electrical manhole, the cover of which had been dislodged with heavy smoke and visible fire present, fire ...

A gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China has killed at least 82 people, according to state media, the country’s deadliest mining disaster in more than a decade.

State law requires excavators to notify Texas811 so underground pipes can be marked — but many do not. An explosion that ...

New details about a deadly underground mining explosion have emerged as the company involved in the early morning disaster plans to reopen. Holly Clarke, 24, and Ambrose McMullen, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two Eversource workers were injured when an underground transformer exploded in downtown Boston Tuesday evening. The Boston Fire ...

Seismic monitoring of underground explosions employs a network of sensors to record elastic waves generated by a sudden release of energy beneath the Earth’s surface. These recordings enable detection ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Vladimir Mulder / Shutterstock.com. (Vladimir Mulder / Shutterstock.com.) Coal mining has produced some of the deadliest ...