A long-running debate about the Silverpit Crater beneath the North Sea has finally been resolved. Scientists now confirm it formed when a roughly 160-meter asteroid struck the seabed about 43–46 ...

Japan is marking the 15th anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster on its northeastern coast as the ...

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 struck off northeastern Japan on Sunday, with shaking felt in a wide area ...

There have been more than 20 earthquakes reported in Florida since 1992. The largest earthquake ever recorded in Florida ...

Logistics and costs are among the hurdles faced in conducting disaster education for younger people with little or no memory ...

Black bags containing soil removed during decontamination work are stacked in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, Friday ...

Virginia is walking straight into a prison health care funding crisis, not because the problem is new, but because we have spent nearly a decade studying it, acknowledging it and then doing almost ...

IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva on the promise of artificial intelligence, and why countries must coordinate to spot risks, protect workers, and build smart guardrails.

A 6.4 earthquake was recorded on March 4 near the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Gold Coast City Council will employ consultants to determine what would happen, including where people would evacuate to, if a catastrophic tsunami smashed the region.

Japan is still struggling to remove molten fuel debris at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, 15 years after a devastating earthquake and tsunami struck the northeastern part of the country.