Disaster

A heavy snowstorm has swept through the US's south-eastern states, killing at least one person and leaving hundreds of thousands without power....Read More

A powerful earthquake rocked Anchorage on Friday, violently shaking homes and businesses, sending scared residents into the streets and damaging buildings in Alaska’s largest city. The 7.0-magnitude quake struck at 8:29 am (1729 GMT), in the...

A powerful earthquake rocked Anchorage on Friday, violently shaking homes and businesses, sending scared residents into the streets and damaging buildings in Alaska’s largest city. The 7.0-magnitude quake struck at 8:29 am (1729 GMT), in the...

The death toll in northern California’s so-called “Camp Fire” rose to 87, officials said on late Saturday, adding that the blaze was almost fully under control. Cal Fire, the state fire authority, said in its latest...

Japan‘s economy shrank in the third quarter as natural disasters hit spending and disrupted exports. The economy contracted by an annualized 1.2% between July and September, preliminary figures showed, reports BBC. A devastating earthquake and typhoon...

IOM, the United Nations Migration agency, reports Typhoon Yutu (locally called “Rosita”) made landfall in the northern Philippines earlier today bringing driving rain and high winds, according to IOM staff deployed to the area following Typhoon...

Typhoon Yutu slammed into the Philippines Tuesday with fierce winds that sheared off roofs and snapped trees in half, after thousands were evacuated ahead of the powerful storm’s arrival. Cutting a path just south of last...

At least nine people were killed and five more missing after heavy rains triggered a mudslide in northern Colombia on Sunday, the local fire department said. The early morning rains caused a mudslide that buried several...

Four earthquakes — measuring from 4.9 to 6.8 magnitude — struck in quick succession off Canada’s west coast late on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said. The epicenter of the first 6.6 tremors, at 10:39 pm...

At least 13 people have been killed in southwestern France by some of the worst flash floods in a century, local authorities said on Monday. Television pictures showed raging, muddy rivers – swollen by torrential rain...