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The disaster killed 15,900 people, with 2,520 people still listed as missing as of the end of February, according to the ...

People living near coastal areas in the south were "strongly advised to immediately evacuate" to higher ground, or move ...

The coming “silver tsunami” refers to a growing population of baby boomers aging into retirement. The U.S. Census shows the ...

A 6.9-magnitude aftershock jolted quake-hit southern Philippines, triggering a fresh tsunami alert just hours after an ...

This year’s Great Washington ShakeOut is scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 16, when people across the state will practice ...

Most of the British Virgin Islands are protected by a broad, shallow continental shelf, with waves losing energy as they roll ...

She was one of the survivors, along with her family, of the Indian Ocean tsunami. She now publishes a story, 'Kokoro and the ...

Sometime between 1381 and 1391, an earthquake exceeding magnitude 8.0 rocked the northeastern Caribbean and sent a tsunami ...

A landslide into a river in Canada's Yukon territory last December sent a tsunami of ice slabs flying over two football ...