Patong will conduct a large-scale tsunami drill this month, preparing residents and tourists for an emergency that could save lives.

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Two summers ago, in Hawaii, flames blasted by winds upward of 80 miles per hour rolled downslope like an avalanche of fire, ...

“Move to higher ground now,” the police department said. “Be safe and move to higher ground,” said the county. The water had ...

In September 2023, a global seismic mystery began to unfold. Every 90 seconds, the Earth pulsed with a strange, low-frequency ...

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Since the devastating flooding hit in Texas over the holiday weekend, we've had the same question posed time and again to the ...

Failing to address a stark public safety need — one with a staggering death toll and compounding grief — would be a ...

The Bureau of Meteorology advises northwesterly winds increase ahead of a cold front moving through southeast NSW late Tuesday and early Wednesday, bring damaging winds to parts of the southern and ...

Santa Cruz’s first Race the Wave run, on Saturday, Sept. 13, aims to help the community envision and plan what to do in the event of a tsunami.