Emergency management officials provide scenario, encourage preparedness ...

After a magnitude 8.8 earthquake hit off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, tsunami alerts rippled out across Hawaii, Alaska, ...

When Ichiro Kawachi established a cohort study in Iwanuma, Japan, in 2010, he thought he would be researching the predictors ...

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In a remote Alaskan bay, a massive landslide triggered a tsunami unlike anything ever recorded. The wave surged up the surrounding mountainsides, reaching a staggering height of more than 1,700 feet ...

A strong earthquake has shaken western Japan, but no major damage or life-threatening injuries were reported. The Japan ...

Tornadoes are officially the scariest natural disaster, according to new research. A survey of 2,500 Americans split evenly by U.S. region found that regardless of where they live, the threat of a ...

Sri Lanka has experienced more than 44,000 natural disasters, including minor ones, over the past decade from 2015 to 2025, forcing successive governments to spend over Rs. 30 billion on compensation ...

Living by the ocean is like dating someone with explosive tendencies. Beautiful most days, but capable of unleashing hell without warning. The 2010 Chile event serves as our sobering case study. It ...

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 ...