Tag: Pacific Ocean

Taiwan suspended trains and closed schools on Saturday as it braced for its first typhoon of the year. Typhoon Nesat ...

The Cook Islands has created one of the world's largest marine sanctuaries, protecting a vast swathe of the Pacific Ocean ...

A photograph supposedly showing Amelia Earhart alive in the Marshall Islands in 1937 that caused a stir earlier this month ...

The US military has conducted a successful test of a missile intercept system, officials said Tuesday, as tensions soar following ...

A 5.9-magnitude quake Monday rocked a central Philippine island still reeling from a deadly tremor last week, though there were ...

A Marshall Islands-based military expert has cast further doubt on claims that a blurry photograph shows famed US aviatrix Amelia ...

The death toll from heavy rains and flooding in Japan's south has risen to 18, officials said Sunday, as rescue ...

Philippine police said Friday they had seized 70 dead hawksbill marine turtles, a critically endangered species illegally trafficked for its ...

Residents fled their houses in panic overnight on Friday as aftershocks hit the central Philippines a day after a 6.5-magnitude ...

It is one of the most tantalizing mysteries in aviation lore -- the disappearance of Amelia Earhart. What happened to ...

A 6.5-magnitude earthquake killed at least one person in the central Philippines on Thursday, with at least five more people ...

A powerful 6.5-magnitude earthquake rattled the central Philippines Thursday, US seismologists said, revising an earlier figure of 6.9. The quake ...

A typhoon slammed into Japan on Tuesday, grounding dozens of flights, injuring at least three people and prompting authorities to ...

The American company SpaceX on Sunday successfully placed 10 satellites for the communications company Iridium into orbit using a Falcon ...

An alert issued Wednesday about a major earthquake off the coast of California turned out -- thankfully -- to be ...

North Korea warned on Wednesday that it was prepared to launch intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) at any time, as the ...

A search and rescue exercise turned real for a US Coast Guard crew who found six Tongan fishermen missing at ...

The Philippines and United States launched annual military exercises in Manila on Monday but the longtime allies scaled them down ...

Voting for the next president of France has begun in some overseas territories. As the polls opened Brigitte Trogneux, the ...

The US Air Force test-launched an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile from California early Wednesday, the military said. Air Force Global ...