Tag: Natural disasters

The US state of Florida braced Monday for a tropical storm as authorities declared an emergency in some areas and ...

Flooding in China's northeast has left 18 dead and 18 missing, state media said Monday, after the latest deadly deluge ...

Rescuers dug through earth and rocks for a second day on Sunday in an increasingly bleak search for some 118 ...

Chinese rescuers scoured through rocks on Saturday in a frantic search for more than 140 people feared buried after a ...

Around 100 people are feared buried after a landslide smashed through their village in southwest China's Sichuan Province early Saturday, ...

Weather monitors warned Wednesday of tornados and potentially deadly flash floods as Tropical Storm Cindy in the Gulf of Mexico ...

Rescue workers were Wednesday battling to reach remote areas of Bangladesh hit by landslides and heavy rains that have killed ...

Three people drowned Thursday when their makeshift raft capsized in Sri Lanka, which has been hit by its worst flooding ...

A shallow, 6.6-magnitude earthquake hit inland on the central Indonesian island of Sulawesi on Monday, US seismologists said, causing people ...

Thousands of Sri Lankan troops battled Monday to get relief supplies to nearly half a million people displaced by the ...

Sri Lanka's monsoon toll climbed to 164 with the discovery of more bodies of people buried in landslides triggered by ...

Emergency teams rushed to distribute aid Sunday to half a million Sri Lankans displaced after the island's worst flooding in ...

India joined Sri Lanka's relief operation Saturday as 230,000 people were driven from their homes after an intense monsoon deluge ...

Indian medical teams and emergency relief arrived in Sri Lanka Saturday as the monsoon-related death toll reached 100 and authorities ...

A strong earthquake hit southern Japan on Tuesday, though there was no tsunami warning nor immediate reports of damage or ...

A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the Philippines early Saturday, triggering a tsunami warning that was later lifted, Philippine and US ...

Japan paused Saturday to mark six years since a deadly earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster devastated its northeastern coast, as ...

Satsuki Sekine's home was destroyed in Japan's 2011 tsunami disaster and her family fled in the nuclear panic that followed. ...

One person was killed and several others injured on Sunday when a powerful aftershock hit a southern Philippine city still ...

One of the strongest storms in years pounded California, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of people from their homes, causing ...