Along a quiet stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a hidden fault is slowly loading the energy for what could be the most ...

When a huge earthquake struck near Kamchatka, the SWOT satellite captured an unprecedented, high-resolution view of the resulting tsunami as it crossed the Pacific. The data revealed the waves were ...

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

The tsunami warning towers in the south have been out of order for several years and those on the verge of collapse ...

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 ...

ASTORIA, Ore. — Residents of this small coastal city in the Pacific Northwest know what to do when there's a tsunami warning: Flee to higher ground. For those in or near Columbia Memorial, the city's ...

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 ...

Beyond the rare observation itself, the data raised deeper scientific questions. Large tsunamis are traditionally classified ...

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 ...

GENEVA, Jan. 11 (UNHCR) - As the U.N. urged donor governments to donate nearly $1 billion to tsunami disaster relief Tuesday, the U.N. refugee agency stepped up its delivery of aid supplies to ...

Mike Rea, founder of Give2Asia, calls the 2004 Asian tsunamis the “first global disaster of our time.” Now an employee of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Mr. Rea wanted to use the disaster’s 10th ...