ISTANBUL, Feb 9 (Reuters) - The devastating scale of Monday's earthquake in southern Turkey presents "serious difficulties" for planned elections in mid-May, a Turkish official said on Thursday, in ...

Scenes of devastation in Cebu after Typhoon Tino: a damaged home in a rural village (top) and vehicles stacked in a flooded ...

A nightmarish scenario for the Pacific Northwest has gotten a dramatic update. Researchers have long warned that a stretch of coast in Oregon and Washington state is capable of producing an incredibly ...

David Basco was at work when his office building started shaking on Aug. 23 in Toronto. “I saw the keys hanging on my cupboard start to shake, and people from the other offices started going out into ...

More than 60 people have been killed in the Philippines after a 6.9-magnitude earthquake collapsed houses and nightclubs. The magnitude-6.9 earthquake struck at about 10pm local time on Tuesday (3pm ...

The IMF paper “The Macroeconomic Impact of Earthquakes on Growth: A Tale from Two Datasets” finds that earthquakes significantly reduce GDP growth—especially in poorer countries, when measured with ...