New draft policy calls for nuclear power to meet 20 per cent of national energy needs by 2040 as against 8.5 per cent now ...

The draft of a new energy plan has removed the pledge to "reduce dependence on nuclear power as much as possible," a policy ...

A 7.3-magnitude earthquake shook the South Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu on Tuesday, December 17, causing widespread damage. The US Geological Survey (USGS) said the earthquake struck 30 km (18 miles ...

Twenty years after the deadliest wave in recorded history, most oceans have warning systems and communities have learned how best to escape the danger.

(Sage Alexander/The Times-Standard via AP) Hasan Raza cleans up in the aftermath of a 7. ... More recently, a tsunami from a 2011 earthquake in Japan caused about $100 million in damages along ...

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On Dec. 26, 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake struck off the west coast of Sumatra, causing a massive wave that devastated ...

Adam Pascale, the Chief Scientist at the Seismology Research Centre earthquake observatory in Melbourne, says the depth of ...

An earlier tsunami warning for the island nation was ... Vanuatu government websites were offline in the aftermath of the quake and phone numbers for the police and other public agencies did ...

but Vanuatu government websites were offline in the aftermath of the quake and phone numbers for the police and other public agencies did not connect. The USGS warned of tsunami waves for some ...

Two decades after a catastrophic tsunami destroyed her village, Tria Asnani still cries when she recalls how she lost her ...