A 4.2-magnitude earthquake jolted Kong Plong district in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum on early January 9 morning ...

Lacquerware maker Takaho Shoji hunches over his desk in the disaster-­hit city of Wajima in central Japan, applying another ...

On several occasions during the past 20 years, Indonesia has made global headlines due to devastating natural disasters that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of human and animal lives, ...

Ho Chi Minh City has set a target of achieving at least one square metre of green space per capita and an additional ten ...

The unpredictable nature of volcanoes has made it difficult to develop accurate methods to anticipate eruptions, especially ...

The destructive fires in Los Angeles County have shone a spotlight on the West's vulnerability to natural disasters and the ...

An international marine research team guided by Cornell expertise has successfully completed an ambitious drilling project to ...

A strong 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck on Sunday off the coast of El Salvador, shaking residences in many parts of the country but there was no risk of a tsunami, the country's environment ...

Unlike the Pacific Northwest’s steep-sloped Cascade volcanoes such as Mount St. Helens or Mount Hood that tend to explode ...

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there is no tsunami threat to Guam or the Northern Marianas from an earthquake in the Vanuatu Islands. The U.S. Geological Survey recorded an earthquake ...

BEIJING, Jan 10 (Reuters) - At least 126 people were killed in Tibet by this week's earthquake of magnitude 6.8, the fifth-deadliest since 2008, data from China's National Earthquake Data Center ...

MANILA, Philippines — A 4.2-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of San Pascual municipality in Masbate province on Monday morning, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology ...