This Christmas Day marks 21 years since the terrifying Indian Ocean tsunami. As we remember the hundreds of thousands of ...

Columbia Memorial Hospital near Oregon's coastline is forging ahead with emergency plans in case of a major earthquake or ...

A powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake has struck off northern Japan, injuring over 20 people and triggering a tsunami ...

The deadliest volcanic disaster in Japan’s history did not end with fire or ash, but with water. When the slopes of a ...

A group of specialist Sumatran elephants have joined recovery operations in Aceh following the catastrophic landfall of ...

If your home was destroyed by a sudden disaster that you couldn't control, you would hope that at the very least, your insurance would cover your losses. However, disaster risk financing systems are ...

The earthquake that hit a Russian island was among the most powerful ever recorded, and forecasters immediately feared it could spur cataclysmic walls of water thousands of miles away in Hawaii, ...

Magnitude 7.5 earthquake near northern Japan causes tsunami, injures 23. Power outages, transport disruptions, and nuclear facility checks.

Tsunami waves flood an area after a powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off Russia's far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula. (Reuters) A volcano has erupted on Russia's Kamchatka peninsula following an ...

Oregon state Rep. Paul Evans, D-Monmouth, has been introducing legislation to modernize the state’s emergency preparedness and response processes for years. He called the state’s tsunami warnings last ...

Technically, Indonesia doesn’t need to ask for international aid, but it should not reject foreign assistance either in times ...

The process of tsunami parametric insurance. An insurance payout is triggered when a tsunami index (e.g., wave height) meets the predefined criteria. If your home was destroyed by a sudden disaster ...