You’ve heard about Washington’s earthquake risk, but you might not realize Washington is also at risk for a major tsunami. It ...

The interior designer and his longtime partner, acclaimed photographer, Fernando Bengoechea, were vacationing together in Sri ...

Japan’s Tohoku University has been developing a unique disaster-prevention system through its Tsunami Balloon Project.

Scientists say this mega-disaster could strike with little or no warning at all. It has the power to devastate millions in ...

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, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A small California coastal city near the border with Oregon that has recorded dozens of tsunamis, including one that killed 11 people more than 60 years ago, saw little damage ...

As an integral part of the “build back better” approach, authorities must include strategies for the environmentally and ...

The Calcutta High Court said that the administration failed to provide evidence that the compensation scheme was legally ...

Officials warned people to stay away from beaches and waterways Wednesday in a small Northern California coastal city near the Oregon border that has been hit by dozens of tsunamis, including one that ...

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 ...