Scores of people have been killed after a powerful quake sparked a tsunami with waves as high as 1.5 metres (five feet) that smashed into the Indonesian city of Palu. Harrowing video showed waves of ...

There was no siren, no broadcast, no final warning. A ginormous undersea earthquake created one of the worst natural disasters of our time, hurtling a 50m wave to unprepared communities along the ...

Earthquakes account for some of the costliest natural disasters in history. They can literally reshape the planet. But how powerful can they get? That's a question humans have only recently been able ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, Jan. 10 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency has begun focusing its natural disaster efforts in Indonesia on the west coast of Aceh province, including Meulaboh, the city that bore ...

The July 29 M8.8 Kamchatka tsunami arguably caused more damage and certainly accrued more media coverage than the shaking losses. Two months out, we have a better picture of what happened, how the ...