A new national survey reveals Americans fear tornadoes most, even though extreme heat remains the leading weather-related ...

Fourteen years after one of the most powerful earthquakes in history struck Japan, the aftermath is still visible in ...

Japanese local authorities approved the restart of the world's biggest nuclear plant on Friday for the first time since the ...

When we talk about “survivors” in emergency management, we often imagine dramatic rescues, helicopters hoisting people off ...

Tsunamis are powerful ocean waves caused by a variety of factors like earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, or even ...

Sri Lanka did not experience earthquakes or any subsequent tsunami in early November, contrary to social media posts making ...

Risks of a serious crisis are rising. But for disaster response, the information environment has never been worse.

A "megathrust" earthquake and tsunami would devastate the Northwest United States, a geologic region of the Pacific Ocean's "Ring of Fire" called the Cascadia Subduction Zone, where major tectonic ...

Funding and staffing cuts are shuttering the monitoring stations that sustain this life-saving early warning system.

Dozens of earthquakes struck near Japan on Monday following a cluster of seismic activity that rocked the area over the ...

A powerful earthquake has rattled northern Japan, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. A tsunami advisory is lifted ...

Northeastern Japan is prone to earthquakes, including a triple disaster of a quake, tsunami and a nuclear meltdown in ...