Natural Disasters News

Tens of thousands of people on Japan's northeastern coast who were left homeless in the March 2011 tsunami are shivering their way through yet another winter in cramped temporary housing, with perhaps several more to go.

Officials say a powerful magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck Sunday night off the coast of Northern California, but there was no danger of a tsunami.

Sunday night's quake was centered just offshore, about 26 miles southwest of the coastal city of Pinotepa Nacional, the U.S. Geological Survey says.

Yard MD: Ice out on the Fox River washes away wint...: Yard MD: Ice out on the Fox River washes away winter.

PEOPLE starting to return to their homes after flooding on the Somerset Levels are being reminded of the risks associated with clearing up after the waters have receded.

Very low levels of radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster likely will reach ocean waters along the U.S. West Coast next month, scientists are reporting.

This NOAA satellite shows a broad area of low pressure off the coast of British Columbia.

Meter reader Laura Rodelas of the Alameda County Water District works along South Grimmer Boulevard on Friday afternoon, March 7, 2014, in Fremont, Calif.

HE was one of the heroes of last January's Dunalley bushfire emergency, standing shoulder to shoulder with fellow volunteers to fight the Tasman Peninsula blazes just nine days after losing his wife of 35 years.

S REPORT FINDS THE LARGEST EARTHQUAKES ON RECORD IN OKLAHOMA WERE TRIGGERED BY OIL AND GAS ACTIVITY.

This October 2008 photo, provided by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation, shows a brown bat with white nose fungus in New York.

DESPITE roads having dried up around the county after the floods, six areas across Oxfordshire are still hit by closures, with residents unable to get out and about.

A Corps of Engineers official says the mountain snowpack in the Missouri River's upper basin is close to levels seen before 2011 flooding on the river.

A federal audit has found New Jersey did nothing wrong when it used a no-bid contract to hire a firm to clean up debris left behind by Superstorm Sandy in 2012 .

An Army captain at the center of a sexual assault case that has rocked the military testified Friday that a general twice forced her to perform oral sex on him during their three-year, illicit affair.

Bowing to the Pentagon, the Senate agreed after impassioned debate Thursday to leave the authority to prosecute rapes and other serious crimes with U.S. military commanders in a struggle that highlighted the growing role of women in Congress.

From the beginning, the U.S. government's decade-long crackdown on abuse of prescription drugs has run an unsettling risk: that arresting doctors and shuttering “pill mills” would inadvertently fuel a new epidemic of heroin use.

You walk out of 300: Rise of an Empire feeling like you were just at a Gallagher show, only swap the watermelon remnants for fake movie blood.

A new study shows that more than half the survivors in one Japanese town exhibited 'clinically concerning' symptoms of PTSD following the country's mega-earthquake and tsunami.

Following the self-described "worst" seasonal hurricane forecast in 30 years in 2013, Colorado State University meteorologists Phil Klotzbach and William Gray were at risk of losing funding for their well-known Tropical Meteorology Project.