Columbia Memorial Hospital near Oregon's coastline is forging ahead with emergency plans in case of a major earthquake or ...

One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck off Russia’s sparsely populated Far East Wednesday, sending tsunami waves into Japan, Hawaii, the U.S. West Coast and now Chile. The AP spoke to a ...

A month after the disaster, residents are still struggling to recover as anger against Jakarta’s slow rescue response mounts.

Tsunami waves flood an area after a powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off Russia's far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula. (Reuters) A volcano has erupted on Russia's Kamchatka peninsula following an ...

A massive earthquake measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale hit the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia on Wednesday. It is the strongest quake in the area since 1952. Soon after, tsunami waves hit the nearby ...

For fisherman Effendi Basyaruddin, the deadly floods and landslides in Indonesia's Aceh province over the past week have ...

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Buildings along the coast of the small Russian town Severo-Kurilsk were washed inland by tsunami waves on the morning of Wednesday, July 30. The flooding follows an 8.8 magnitude earthquake that hit ...

It was one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded and though early reports show little damage, the event serves as a powerful reminder: Tsunami risk isn’t just theoretical. And now, as advisories ...