Over 25 million cubic yards of rock and ice broke loose and plunged into Greenland's Dickson Fjord, creating a 650-foot-high mega-tsunami ...

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 ...

State Rep. Paul Evans, D-Monmouth, will propose a $300 million package to get more disaster training facilities statewide and to create a new response office under the governor. Oregon state Rep. Paul ...

Throughout history, Japan and Turkey have both suffered massive earthquakes. Groups from the two nations recently met to ...

The world may be entering a period of unprecedented danger from March to October, warns Acharya Sumit Ji. Experts predict potential global crises including plane crashes, tsunamis, and even threats of ...

Gold Coast City Council will employ consultants to determine what would happen, including where people would evacuate to, if a catastrophic tsunami smashed the region.

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 ...

It was a very early morning in August when an entire mountainside in Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord detached and slid into the deep ocean water beneath it. The slide created a gargantuan splash – a ...

Addie Guttag knew very little about American Jewish World Service when she donated $10,000 to the organization in the wake of the Asian tsunamis. But three years later, Ms. Guttag, who works as a ...