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, ...

Bill would boost NOAA’s tsunami preparedness budget by 35%, require planning for a Pacific Northwest megaquake Read Story ...

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 ...

It was a very early morning in August when an entire mountainside in Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord detached and slid into the deep ocean water beneath it. The slide created a gargantuan splash – a ...

The National Weather Service issued a tsunami watch for Oregon and Washington’s coastal areas. That watch was later upgraded to an advisory and then finally lifted by the weather service Wednesday ...

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 ...

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 ...

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