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 ...

Imagine a wall of water taller than the Empire State Building crashing through a quiet fjord in the dead of night. No warning ...

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 ...

Scale of slippage: 30 kilometres below the seafloor, a 1200 km stretch of the Indian plate was thrust up to 20 metres under the Burma plate, raising the seafloor by several metres Historical ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Emperor Naruhito expressed concern about the scars that remain for survivors of the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear ...