As an integral part of the “build back better” approach, authorities must include strategies for the environmentally and ...

Bill would boost NOAA’s tsunami preparedness budget by 35%, require planning for a Pacific Northwest megaquake Read Story ...

The interior designer and his longtime partner, acclaimed photographer, Fernando Bengoechea, were vacationing together in Sri ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Natural disasters have a way of reminding us just how unpredictable and powerful nature can be. Some events in history sound like ...

You’ve heard about Washington’s earthquake risk, but you might not realize Washington is also at risk for a major tsunami. It could come with little warning, but you can protect yourself by being prep ...

The Calcutta High Court said that the administration failed to provide evidence that the compensation scheme was legally ...

Scientists say this mega-disaster could strike with little or no warning at all. It has the power to devastate millions in ...

One of the reopened waterfronts is Haragamaobama beach in Fukushima prefecture, about 40 kilometres north of the crippled Daiichi nuclear plant. Local officials in Fukushima said they hoped the ...

False reports claiming that another huge quake was about to hit Sulawesi island -- which is already reeling from last Friday's double tragedy that has killed over 1,400 people -- have circulated ...

Japan’s Tohoku University has been developing a unique disaster-prevention system through its Tsunami Balloon Project.

The number of people killed by flash floods after Cyclone Senyar made landfall over Sumatra on Nov. 26 increased to 1,059 on Dec. 18. In Pidie Jaya district, on the north coast of the semi-autonomous ...