In a state known for both "boring" and "scary" weather- as well as frequent natural disasters - California lived up to its ...

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

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 ...

At least 20 people have reportedly died and 320 are injured after an earthquake in Afghanistan at around 1: 00 a.m. local ...

Japanese authorities issued a tsunami alert for the northeast of the country on Sunday after a magnitude 6.7 earthquake was ...

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake hit eastern Afghanistan on Aug. 31 near the border with Pakistan, killing more than 2,200 people.

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THE Philippines consistently ranks first globally on the World Risk Index, a stark indicator of the nation’s extreme exposure ...

When an earthquake hits, you have only seconds to act. And if you don’t know exactly what you should do—or you have incorrect information about earthquake safety—you could accidentally be putting ...