In all, about 150 families lost their homes and land in the flood and now face an uncertain future. Lepcha’s family lost both ...

CHOORALMALA: Exactly a year after the Chooralmala–Mundakkai landslides buried homes, hopes, and entire families under the ...

A 2014 city of Seattle report examining Seattle's "inherent vulnerability" to a tsunami noted that a tsunami will "almost ...

“An exciting implication of our study is that seismic shaking, caused by moonquakes generated by movement on young faults like the Lee-Lincoln fault, probably result in landslides and boulder falls ...

NISAR, built jointly by NASA and India’s space agency and launched on Wednesday, will use radar to monitor tiny changes ...

Some of Earth's largest climate systems may collapse not with a bang, but with a whimper. Surprisingly, experiments with ...

Whether a magnet collapses abruptly or smoothly is determined by its structure. As a general rule, hard materials are simple ...

The satellite called NISAR — short for NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar — will operate from a near-polar-circling orbit 464 miles high. It will join dozens of Earth observation missions already in ...

A massive 8.8‑magnitude earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula late Tuesday triggered tsunami warnings and advisories ...

A 9.5 magnitude earthquake struck in a central region of Chile in 1960. Known as the Valdivia earthquake or Great Chilean ...

Tsunamis form when a sudden event, like an undersea earthquake, displaces a large volume of water. Their size can vary ...

A powerful earthquake that struck off the coast of Russia has generated tsunami warnings and advisories for a broad section ...